Last month, I was lucky enough to speak at OUP’s For the Love of Reading: Passing on the Passion conference. It was a wonderful occasion that brought teachers, authors and researchers together to talk about reading. I left with my brain fizzing with ideas, inspired to try the raft of new things I’d learnt from […]
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A zany was a Fool or a jester’s assistant, a bit like a clown.
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The word yoke is used to mean servitude.
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Unfortunately there is no entry for X in the Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary so we are moving on straight to W!
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To commemorate National Shakespeare Day, we are sharing an interesting extract from the Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary.
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A viola da gamba, played between the legs like a modern cello.
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This special anniversary year offers unique opportunities for introducing your students to the world and work of William Shakespeare. Finding new and inspiring ways of bringing Shakespeare’s plays to life is essential to engaging children in the classroom. With this in mind, we’ve asked some of our authors and experts to share their first encounters […]
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Warning! Don’t read in the meaning of ‘a poorly dressed boy’.
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Warning! Don’t read in the meaning of ‘teaching’.
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Slug-a-bed means lazy-bones! It can also be spelled ‘slug-abed’.
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