steve246253Jul 27, 20185 min readGaps – 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 min readThe 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...
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...