steve246253Jul 27, 20185 minGaps – vocabulary, reading and NATE ConferenceI am updating this blog, which dates from July 2018, in January 2022. The issues it highlights have been considerably exacerbated by...
steve246253Oct 13, 20175 minThe Rooted in Reading Award and student attainmentThe Rooted in Reading Award passport was originally designed to be reading’s equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The tasks are...
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...