Football Detective

Monday, 30 December 2013

New blog address

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Hello Happy New Year! In 2014 I'll be blogging at http://tompalmer.co.uk/category/blog/  . Please have a look. Thanks Tom
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Saturday, 2 November 2013

Researching Rugby in France - a travelogue

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One I'm in Toulon. Home of the European Rugby Champions. Rugby Union champions. There's a good reason I'm here. After Toulon...
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Friday, 25 October 2013

Rugby Union autumn internationals

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The autumn international season starts in a week, with all the great rugby union nations of the southern hemisphere touring Europe. It's...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Writing on Adrenaline

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Today we wanted to get boys writing competitively. For them to go at writing in the same way they go at sport. With adrenaline and urgency. ...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013

How to use the World Cup to get kids reading more

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Now that England have qualified for World Cup 2014 in Brazil, I am very happy to be announce that I will be working with the National Litera...

Let children read about football... if they like football

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Neil Gaiman gave a very important lecture on Monday night. He was speaking about books and reading. One of the things he said was that we sh...
Friday, 11 October 2013

Dyslexia Awareness Week

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It happened when a teacher was talking to me in a sports hall in Bridgend, south Wales. She was asking about the stickers on my three Barr...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Useful literacy ideas for World Cup week

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It's a big week for football fans. The question among England fans is: Can England qualify for the 2014 World Cup? If you like footb...
Monday, 7 October 2013

Bismark is On Side

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In 2009 I visited Ghana to find out more about the trafficking of young footballers from African countries to Europe. It was research for ...
Thursday, 3 October 2013

Free literacy and sport posters and postcards

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I have a range of posters and postcards that are free for schools and libraries. Free postage too. You can see them on this picture. They ...
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Tom Palmer
Todmorden, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Tom Palmer is a children's fiction writer and a literacy consultant in the UK. He is published by Puffin Books and Barrington Stoke. He does school and library visits and works regularly with the National Literacy Trust, the Reading Agency and the British Council.
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