Teaching Early Literacy

Roald Dahl is a renown writer of children’s story books. His books are sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.  His language is simple and his stories normally about the typical issues of British young children.

For teachers teaching literature can visit the padlet link on Roald Dahl Curriculum Resources for TnL ideas.

https://padlet.com/grahamandre07/roalddahl  

While responding to a friend’s message, I stumbled upon the word backwards, I am used to say moving backwards, but why with an ‘s’. So, I searched the word on google and this is what I got.

-Both backward and backwards are correct, but most sources say that when you’re using the word as an adverb, backward is standard in American English and backwards is standard in British English.-

To read more go to

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/backward-versus-backwards