steve246253Jan 4, 20144 min readReadicide – schools and readingKelly Gallagher’s 2009 book Readicide is subtitled How schools are killing reading and what you can do about it. This gives a very clear...
steve246253May 31, 20133 min readFLOW and reading for pleasureReading is a creative activity as a number of researchers have pointed out. Holden, in Creative Reading (2004) makes the case that...
steve246253Five easy ways to get started with Rooted in ReadingUprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...
steve246253Joe Wicks, Functional Fluency and teacher observationThis blog was written a while back and then forgotten about. Since then Functional Fluency International has developed considerably. It...
steve246253The 15 Rooted in Reading PrinciplesBack 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...