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Rosie Watch - Editorial Expert
Rosie Watch has taken her childhood passion for literature from classrooms in Cusco to Chelsea. With over 30 years of teaching experience and hundreds of books later, Rosie is still as eager as ever to get her hands on her next tome. Alongside a career in education, Rosie has also raised three boys and is well accustomed to separating the literary wheat from the chaff.
While running various English departments in schools across the country, Rosie has also had the chance to meet and run workshops with many children’s authors and poets including Nigel Hinton, Roger McGough and Michael Morpurgo. A firm believer in the importance of a willingness to look beyond what we already know and embrace change, Rosie has, in her teaching, maintained that elusive balance between the sharing of best practice and having a few lesser known ‘secrets’ up her sleeve in order to keep both children and her fellow teachers engaged.
Latest Reviews By Rosie Watch
I was very excited to receive Comprehension Ninja: Inference and Beyond for Upper KS2 and Comprehension Ninja: Inference and Beyond for Lower KS2 as I am the happy recipient of a set of Ninja comprehension books, fiction, nonfiction and poetry that were published a few years ago.
The layout of these two supplementary books is the same, thus providing continuity, and by repetition, a structure for good thinking habits to build upon.
Inference, the ability to hear, experience things, to interact and form opinions are skills we learn as we mature. These two books ... View Full Review
I was very excited to receive Comprehension Ninja: Inference and Beyond for Upper KS2 and Comprehension Ninja: Inference and Beyond for Lower KS2 as I am the happy recipient of a set of Ninja comprehension books, fiction, nonfiction and poetry that were published a few years ago.
The layout of these two supplementary books is the same, thus providing continuity, and by repetition, a structure for good thinking habits to build upon.
Inference, the ability to hear, experience things, to interact and form opinions are skills we learn as we mature. These two books enable the learner to acquire ... View Full Review
This is such a practical and useful book. It is a book of how to prioritise, how to make decisions, and how to make research more meaningful and relevant. It covers all elements of English from the foundation stage to the end of KS2 including how to encourage reading, practical tips on teaching spelling and tips on structuring a text and sentence building.
The book is divided into manageable sized chapters with an incredibly useful contents section.
All aspects of the curriculum are explored. The book clearly pinpoints where to look for the answers you might need; so, if you ... View Full Review
Mission Dyslexia is a set of colourful, vibrantly illustrated workbooks. They are both positive and practical in their approach and are packed with inspiring and thought-provoking ideas. The books are marketed as dyslexic workbooks with an emphasis on resilience, and the tools to develop a growth mindset.
The authors are clearly passionate about what they write and with one dyslexic parent and two dyslexic children. they are writing from experience. They are understanding of a dyslexic child’s frustration, their feelings and emotions and the sheer exhaustion of getting through a school day.
Each book takes on a ... View Full Review
Mission Dyslexia is a set of colourful, vibrantly illustrated workbooks. They are both positive and practical in their approach and are packed with inspiring and thought-provoking ideas. The books are marketed as dyslexic workbooks with an emphasis on resilience, and the tools to develop a growth mindset.
The authors are clearly passionate about what they write and with one dyslexic parent and two dyslexic children. they are writing from experience. They are understanding of a dyslexic child’s frustration, their feelings and emotions and the sheer exhaustion of getting through a school day.
Each book takes on a ... View Full Review
Mission Dyslexia is a set of colourful, vibrantly illustrated workbooks. They are both positive and practical in their approach and are packed with inspiring and thought-provoking ideas. The books are marketed as dyslexic workbooks with an emphasis on resilience, and the tools to develop a growth mindset.
The authors are clearly passionate about what they write and with one dyslexic parent and two dyslexic children. they are writing from experience. They are understanding of a dyslexic child’s frustration, their feelings and emotions and the sheer exhaustion of getting through a school day.
Each book takes on a slightly ... View Full Review
This title is available from the Crown House Publishing website here.
Having read the title of this book, I was a little concerned about writing a review. What to say, who would the book appeal to, what is its market, would the topic make interesting reading? However, as I started to read, I became aware of how unique and clever it was, and just how inspirational. It accurately records what it really is to be a great teacher.
The book talks about 9 different primary teachers, how they teach, what inspires them and how their approaches effect the classes they ... View Full Review
Get out of the Game is a set of phonic reading books, 12 in all that tell the story of Gus, who, for his birthday receives a new game called Room Trap. He soon finds himself lost in his own game. With the help of his two pals, Kip and Tess, he goes on a quest to find the way out. Each story tells another part of the adventure with a different challenge or puzzle to solve. There are adventures with bats, rats and dinosaurs, caves and cliffs. Gus realises by the end of the story, not just the ... View Full Review
This set of 12 phonetic books follows the story of Mel, a 13 year old who wants to be an astronaut like her brother Dom who is stationed at a base on Mars. Early in the story it transpires Dom has disappeared and Mel is left with the task of finding him. She sets off to the Red Planet with no idea of what she will find or who she will meet. Along the way she encounters a variety of characters both human and alien. The stories are action packed blasting from adventure to adventure ... View Full Review
This is a set of 12 decodable books for catch up readers. Each book focuses on a story featuring two or three characters left in charge of a pet. There are adventures with everything from snakes to hamsters, dogs, a pregnant cat and a rather interesting hive of bees. The adventures occur all over the world from house sitting in town, to a river boat, a desert and to an adventure in the Caribbean. They are all rather endearing stories with some charming illustrations and satisfying endings.
The stories follow a common theme of pet sitting, but each can be read ... View Full Review
I always love receiving the Ninja books. I have reviewed many and they are put into use almost immediately. This book is a complete bible of how to improve a child’s understanding of constructing well structured sentences with confidence.
It provides a clear guide throughout the KS2 years. The first half of the book focuses on a well laid out plan, term by term year by year, on how teachers can provide their classes with the fundamental understanding of sentence structure both grammatically and creatively. As Jenning observes, if we were teaching long division we would help the ... View Full Review
A new addition to the superb Ninja series, in Text Types and Modelled Writes the focus is to provide KS2 pupils with the ability to plan, scaffold and produce independent pieces of writing.
The book contains easy to follow, well planned and scaffolded writing which Jennings sums up, ‘age related expectations can often move at a pace that doesn’t allow them to genuinely develop strong structural understanding of how to build a specific text type, plan it and ultimately write it’.
All too often we provide children with wonderful stimuli, pictures, interesting vocabulary and interesting ... View Full Review
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