Reading for Pleasure

An essential skill if you are to master any language, and become both a better writer and speaker!

Do not tak my word for it!

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” 

 - Confucius

I am currently reading...

Laurence's bookshelf: currently-reading

Infidel

by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

tagged: currently-reading

 

Books I have enjoyed reading in the past...

Laurence's bookshelf: read

Travels with Boogie: Five Hundred Mile Walkies and Boogie Up The River: Five Hundred Mile Walkies - "One Man and a Dog Versus the South-west Peninsular ... Man and His Dog to the Source of the Thames"

by Mark Wallington

 

A Selection from The Canterbury Tales

by Selina Hastings

Really helpful in providing a brief insight to some of the most popular of Chaucer's tales. Used with some low level Year 7 students to communicate the outline of the tale before looking at a modernised play version of the Canterbury Tal...

The Map That Changed The World

by Simon Winchester

 

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

The Lord Of The Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien