Five easy ways to get started with Rooted in Reading
Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...
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Dec 2, 20213 min read
The 15 Rooted in Reading Principles
Back in November 2010 I was invited to go down to London to lead a research seminar at the DfE on the reading for pleasure promotion...
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Nov 23, 20214 min read
How we became a school that reads
The following piece by Ben Wilkinson and Sonja Bredgaard was published on The Guardian's teacher blog back in 2012. Interest in reading...
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Jan 19, 20202 min read
Rooted in Reading – 5 key benefits of the blue reading passport
The second passport we produced, the blue one, was conceived as a more primary-orientated version of the original green passport. The...
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Jan 11, 20202 min read
Rooted in Reading: 10 things you need to know about the original green passport
1. The green passport was the first one in the series. Indeed, when I wrote it I thought it would be the only one but then when my...
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Jan 6, 20201 min read
Rooted in Reading passports: an introduction
It occurred to me recently that, although Rooted in Reading has now been around for over a decade, there are still many teachers out...
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Oct 13, 20175 min read
The Rooted in Reading Award and student attainment
The Rooted in Reading Award passport was originally designed to be reading’s equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The tasks are...
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Jan 11, 20143 min read
Evolution, the developing brain and the power of reading
Alison Gopnik wrote The Philosophical Baby back in 2009 and I think that in it she tells us many things about the development of...
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Jan 4, 20144 min read
Readicide – schools and reading
Kelly Gallagher’s 2009 book Readicide is subtitled How schools are killing reading and what you can do about it. This gives a very clear...
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Jun 1, 20131 min read
Using Flow to encourage reading for pleasure
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May 31, 20133 min read
FLOW and reading for pleasure
Reading is a creative activity as a number of researchers have pointed out. Holden, in Creative Reading (2004) makes the case that...
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Apr 28, 20138 min read
Becoming a Reading school – Ofsted case study
Kirk Hallam Community, Technology and Sports College, Derbyshire has embraced Rooted in Reading as a central plank of its whole school...
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Mar 23, 20134 min read
Reading for pleasure report and the National Curriculum for English
The National Curriculum for KS3 English states that students should All pupils must be encouraged to read widely across both fiction and...
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Mar 16, 20134 min read
The Guardian blog about Rooted in Reading
Interest in reading usually drops off once children go to secondary school. The Rooted in Reading scheme is helping reverse that trend....
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Feb 16, 20132 min read
The 2017 Rooted in Reading Implementation Plan for Schools
Here is a suggested plan to help schools set up and embed the reading promotion project, Rooted in Reading. Define Decide on target year...
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Feb 3, 20134 min read
Rooted In Reading at LCHS 2010-2012
Here is a detailed report on the introduction of the Rooted in Reading passports and the impact they had in a large comprehensive school...
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Feb 2, 20131 min read
The Need to Read
Nottinghamshire- based performance poet, Louise Ashley was so inspired by the ideas behind Rooted in Reading that she wrote the following...
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Introducing the Functionally Fluent School Leadership programme
In the recent Teacher Wellbeing Survey conducted by the NASUWT, 86% of teachers surveyed said that their job had had a negative impact...
Five easy ways to get started with Rooted in Reading
Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...
Joe Wicks, Functional Fluency and teacher observation
This blog was written a while back and then forgotten about. Since then Functional Fluency International has developed considerably. It...
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