Fiona Hamilton

Kipper wonders about words with his friend Arnold. Find a friend and do the same – you never know where your wonderings might take you.

A classic tale with illustrations to study and words to inquire into. Build empathy in your classroom with this multifaceted text.

Word detectives, word collectors, word noticers and now word spies! Enjoy this fun, rhythmic book that reminds us of well-loved characters.

Join Little Star as she celebrates the Mid Autumn Festival. What words can you find that are good enough to eat?

Join inquisitive Winsome on her quest as she wonders about her world. What questions about words are you bursting to ask and investigate?

Where will your dreams take you? And what words will you uncover on your journey? Join Nigel as he finds his dreams can be a reality.

Your name is important. Names and words have stories; share your name and part of your identity with this great community building text.

There are so many hidden treasures in our world and so many in words too! Enjoy this treasure of a book and the words it brings.

Stella was an explorer when she was small. Join her as she grows, changes and discovers her world and discover words along the way.

Luna loves dance, art and books, and we are sure she loves words too. Join us as we celebrate the new UK Children’s Laureate this week.

You can always count on a great book and the wonderful words it brings. Even better if you can enjoy it with friends, just like Abigail.

Structures and words, they all start with a base. What words will you build today? What bases will you use?

As you engage with the creative process in this story, think about how we use words creatively and can even create new words.

We are all living with the power of the magical yet. What words are you yet to discover and what new lessons are there to be learned?

Life can go by in a blur, just like this school year. Wherever you are looking to gradually graduate to, we wish you congratulations.

Consolidate, revisit and review. Our students do it and we can too. Be reminded about the ways we can study words using great books.

Why not take A Walk in the Words with Hudson Talbott and Engage. There is no need to feel overwhelmed, just consider a word at a time.

When you go walking what do you see? We see lots of high frequency words! Rebecca Loveless joins us this week to discuss The hfw Project.

(Sea?) see it (hear?) here, a (grate?) great book about homophones! So many interesting phonemes to explore with students and this llama.