Class Writing Competition - Win a visit from children's author Tom Palmer

Win a school visit to your class from successful children's author Tom Palmer! Have fun telling together and creating in the classroom a single piece of spooky creative writing.  It could be either a story, cartoon, play script, film script or a poem, but has to incorporate 10 selected spooky words. 

Download your free Ghost Stadium pack for full details. http://www.tompalmer.co.uk/index.php?page_id=74

You can find out more about Tom Palmer and his work at www.tompalmer.co.uk.  You can also follow Tom on Twitter at @tompalmerauthor.

Good Luck!

Tom Palmer, Author, Latest News ...

I am currently on the final editing stage of my new children's book, "Ghost Stadium" for Barrington Stoke, out in June. You can find out more here.

In the meantime, there are some exciting international dates coming up this term linked to my children's books and please sign up to my newsletter for FREE literacy resources that will encourage reading for pleasure in your school or library.

To order your free poster pack or for any further information please do email admin.tompalmer@talktalk.net.
   
Dates for your Diary
       
Six Nations Rugby tournament: 2nd February-16th March

Free Resource : Rugby Reading and Love Rugby: Love Reading Two free packs full of ideas to help you get children into reading for pleasure through rugby

Read : Scrum!  A passion for rugby and a dilemma about it too lies at the heart of this touching story of a boy with a big decision to make.

You can also read my blog about using the Six Nations to promote reading.


Fairtrade Fortnight: 25th February-10th March

Free Resource : Fair Play teaching pack based on my research trip to Ghana is about Fair trade, football and literacy.

Read : Foul Play 3-Offside  Young detective Danny Harte helps a young footballer from a Ghanian cocoa farming family who is trafficked to the UK

Climate Change week: 4th March-10th March

Free Resource : The Pack Ideas for thinking about ecological issues including the melting ice in the Arctic and the scramble for the oil and gas underneath the seabed of the Arctic Circle.

Read : Squad 2-White Fear  Teenage spies are summoned to the deadly and frozen land of the Arctic Circle by the British Prime Minister prevent international war breaking out.

World Book Day: 7th March 2013

Free Resource : Award or start my Series Reading Challenge, with sticker books and progress charts and signed & personally dedicated certificates for any child reading all of my Football Academy or Foul Play series.

Find all my free resources here.

(Thanks to Tom Palmer for this info.)

The Latest News from Tom Palmer, Children's Author

New Book out now

‘White Fear’ is my new follow up to ‘Black Op’ in the ‘Puffin Squad’ series…  The Squad have been summoned to the deadly and frozen land of the Arctic Circle by the British Prime Minister who has heard of their growing reputation as brilliant young spies. But the beauty of the icy mountains and deep fjords hide some dangerous secrets and someone will do anything to make sure that the Squad don't discover them . . .

You can read my blog on writing about the issues facing the Arctic region here: www.footballdetective.blogspot.co.uk/

You can buy 'White Fear' at www.amazon.co.uk

New Resources

‘White Fear’ focuses on ecological issues including the melting ice in the Arctic and the scramble for the oil and gas underneath the seabed.

To accompany the publication of ‘White Fear’, we've produced The Pack full of extra details about the setting, writing, plot and characters with discussion topics and reading comprehensions. 

It is downloadable for FREE with all my newly updated resources from here …

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