Three boroughs! 👍 Two are next door to each other😊🇫🇷

When Gareth Southgate delivered the Dimbleby Lecture, it was quietly powerful, deeply sincere and, frankly, exactly what we needed more of in the public discourse about men and masculinity.

World Book Day has the most sustained impact when it's used as a springboard for developing a school culture of reading. This year, we're exploring Daniel Pennac's Rights of the Reader (beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake). Each class will develop their own set of reading rights and share them.

When a class have got independent reading time, try to sit with the children and read alongside them. Share the book you're reading, talk about why you're enjoying it and ask them about their choices. The impact on attitudes to reading will be massive. Organising the glue tray can wait.

Well-meaning adults can easily crush a child's enthusiasm for reading by dismissing their choices, saying a book is no good. By all means introduce them to books you think are good, but never forget: it's all reading & it's all good! Let them READ FOR PLEASURE & they'll be readers forever! #literacy

📚❤️ Rapidly adding to my collection and excited to have a catch-up with Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social this week.
✍️ If you are interested in exploring ways to implement a quality text to writing cycle which pitches high but includes all, then #openingdoors is for you.
#edusky #excellenceforall

Agree! My daughter and I loved it! And my enthusiasm inspired two of my Y6 girls to go see it!

We are one of them! 30 mins a week. Years 4, 5 & 6. Children prefer it to French because they love the stories.

My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday.

Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it.

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Y6 The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

My New Year resolutions listed here!

Evidence-informed teaching has to be built around each teacher’s personality and desire for autonomy; let’s celebrate that. A theme I find myself exploring a lot is the need for teachers to feel that they can be themselves in their own classrooms, expressing their personality and enjoying teaching, doing things they fee…

Evidence-informed teaching has to be built around each teacher's personality and desire for autonomy; let's celebrate that. @walkthrus.bsky.social teacherhead.com/2024/01/07/e...

Really looking forward to this second book by one of the reading heros.

As featured on Rest is Entertainment our @moreincommonuk.bsky.social polling of how Brits favourite Christmas films breakdown by voting intention. Labour holds landslide leads with fans of Elf & the Grinch. Tories storm ahead with Love Actually and Reform are ahead by 5 points with fans of Scrooged.

The effects of informed spelling on children’s reading and writing achievement By by Katie Schrodt, Erin Fitzpatrick, Sungyoon Lee,Debra McKeown, Alexis McColloch and Kimberly Evert Original paper: LINK Why writing matters as much as reading in early literacy Early writing sk…

The effects of 'informed spelling' on reading and writing achievement

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READING ALOUD CHANGES CHILDREN'S LIVES FOREVER! Just 10 minutes a day can be enough to help them find the love of books, and become lifelong readers. So whatever else you do, always find the time to read aloud – and the more you do, the better! #literacy #reading #books

CHOICE is key to becoming a reader. When kids are given a wide range of books to choose from, and are allowed to choose freely - THEY READ! I don’t believe in “reluctant readers” - just readers who haven’t yet found the right books for them. So it’s our job to help them find those books! #literacy

PS We love Tyger and Phoenix too

I will show them this tomorrow! Varjak has just chosen to stay with his family while watching Holly being dragged away. The class are distraught 😉

Truly deserving @whatsfsaid.bsky.social I read this book every year with a year 5 class and it just gets better and better! There is so much to discover in the superb writing. 🙌

Looking for children's book recommendations? Seen our 2025 UK Literacy Association Book Award's longlists? They are high-quality books that can reflect all identities & promote diversity. They are chosen by panels of judges who are teachers, educators, librarians & consultants. These are 3-6yrs👇🏼 1/3

A fabulous book! Great writing, glorious vocabulary. We still read it every year in UKS2.

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

The Open University We currently offer the following PhD studentships: Faculty funded studentships Please note that applications for October 2024 are now closed. Applications for October 2025 will open in November 2024 B...

Terrific opportunity for a fully funded PhD in volitional reading/writing! wels.open.ac.uk/research/res... Do pls share widely - we’re open to personal passions+questions @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @whatsfsaid.bsky.social

One of my childhood favourites. I particularly loved the map of her village 🙌

Gosh I remember this book in my childhood 🙌

(Praising you and all you cope with in your every day)

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Skills vs knowledge, 13 years on What can we learn from widespread dissatisfaction with the Curriculum for Excellence?

One of our most popular posts is just over a year old - on the perennial debate between skills & knowledge and what we've learnt over the past 14 years.

Curricular problems, pedagogical solutions I’ve got quite a few views on education that could be described as controversial. But there’s one view that seems to raise eyebrows more than others. I don’t think that good teach…

I wrote this some months ago and have avoided posting it for some time.

Here's why I think we spend too much time worrying about pedagogy:
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