One for Term 3 (What We'll Build by Oliver Jeffers)

A spectacular new title from Oliver Jeffers; What We'll Build.  This is a rare and enduring story about a parent's boundless love, life's endless opportunities and all we need to build a together future.  The back cover states 'What shall we build, you and I? I'll build your future and you'll build mine. We'll build a watch to keep our time. A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together. Using their own special tools, they get to work; building memories to cherish, a home to keep them safe and love to keep them warm'.

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) has produced a set of teaching notes to provide schools with sessions that focus on the importance of illustration in building a narrative and supporting children’s response.  They build on their work supporting teachers to use picture books to enhance critical thinking and develop creative approaches in art and writing.  The teaching notes show how picture books can be used in schools to enhance children’s reading comprehension and composition of their own creative writing.  There are strong links with geography here ... and it hits Ofsted's 'reading across the curriculum' focus too (a key element of their Education Inspection Framework [EIF]).

Find out more by accessing the web-link below:

https://clpe.org.uk/clpebuildtogether?utm_campaign=11977255