steve246253Jan 18, 20143 minReading – the third componentReading Alison Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby, which examines what new research into the way children’s minds work and develop tells us...
steve246253Jan 11, 20143 minEvolution, the developing brain and the power of readingAlison Gopnik wrote The Philosophical Baby back in 2009 and I think that in it she tells us many things about the development of...
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...
steve246253How we became a school that readsThe following piece by Ben Wilkinson and Sonja Bredgaard was published on The Guardian's teacher blog back in 2012. Interest in reading...