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Joanna Beer - Editorial Expert
Jo Beer lives in Brighton and is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Chichester, following more than 20 years of teaching and leadership experience in primary schools. She specialises in supporting trainee teachers and teachers in schools to develop effective, evidence-informed pedagogy and confident classroom practice. Jo contributes to the development of the English curriculum and leads work on the Religious Education curriculum. Her research interests centre on teacher presence, as well as the connections between story, play, and children’s spiritual development. Jo is a member of the English Association's Early Years and Primary Committee and the UKLA ITE Special Interest Group and enjoys nothing better than reading and chatting about books and stories.
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Poetry can do something rather wonderful in a classroom. It can make children laugh, pause, listen differently and find their own voices; and, as Rasinski’s work on reading fluency reminds us, rhythm, rhyme, repeated reading and performance can also play an important part in developing children’s confidence, expression and comprehension in reading.
It can be spoken, whispered, chanted, performed, illustrated, questioned and played with. And yet, poetry can still sometimes feel like the part of English that teachers feel least confident about.
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There are some books that make you think, “Yes. This is exactly what we need.”
Learning on Your Doorstep by Caroline Eaton and Leslie Patterson is one of those books.
At its heart, this is a book about spotting adventure in the ordinary: the postbox, the park, the café, the bus, the muddy patch, even the recycling bins. It reminds us that outdoor learning is not a special extra, but a rich part of everyday — and every night — early years practice.
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