President Stubb:
“I would prefer in the long run to see Ukraine in NATO. You know, I know for political reasons some people have problems with that. But let's think about it really serious. The Russian threat is not going away. So what then gives us comfort? In my mind, it's Ukraine.”
📹: CBC News
Big news stories this week about Sweden & Norway moving away from screens in the classrooom.
People are realising that some technologies are just not suited for some purposes. It is hard to read deeply & concentrate on a tablet.
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FAQ: How long does the programme take? Students stay on it until they have caught up completely. The time depends on how far behind they are & how rapidly they progress. Data shows typical progress is 2 months per 30 min lesson & takes average 6 months to gain 5 years or more in their reading.
How are we different? We teach the lowest 10%. No one else does this successfully; some of the best-known ‘reading interventions’ actually ignore this group. Your students will catch up completely. The length of time on the programme is determined by the student’s rate of progress.
Love seeing outcomes like these
No lie told.*
*If the world were as it should be.
How are we different? We teach the lowest 10%. No one else does this successfully; some of the best-known ‘reading interventions’ actually ignore this group. Your students will catch up completely. The length of time on the programme is determined by the student’s rate of progress.
If you would like to see these results in your school book a call via this link : https://www.thinkingreading.com/contact
Our promise to our partner schools is that the students they think can't learn to read, will learn. Not only that - they will catch up rapidly & completely.
Applying research findings to the school environment requires time, often years, of rigorous field-trialling. Beware quick fixes. See our striking results here: https://www.thinkingreading.com/case-studies
Very impressed with the refreshed website. Case studies page is so clear! And the students’ charts are just . . . Wow!
All our materials are developed specifically for secondary students. Thinking Reading is not an adaptation of a primary school programme. Contact us for more on how we can support your students: https://www.thinkingreading.com/contact/
1. Our co-founder James Murphy recently led an evaluation of Thinking Reading impact, looking at 30 complete datasets that our partner schools shared with us. A short thread ...
Effective intervention enables students to catch up rapidly and completely. Students need to catch up at 3x the normal rate as a minimum. Read more ‘Reading Intervention That Gets Striking Results’ https://wp.me/p4hKgx-VW (4 min read).
Contact us: https://www.thinkingreading.com/contact/
We provide in-depth training for school leaders on managing organisational change, with a specific focus on literacy. We also provide ongoing advice & support to school leaders throughout the implementation process. Contact us: https://www.thinkingreading.com/contact/
Our programme is designed so students make rapid progress in just three, 30-minute 1-to-1 sessions per week, minimising impact on their curriculum studies. Rapid progress means that they are only withdrawn from lessons for a limited period. Contact us: https://www.thinkingreading.com/contact/
Intervention teaching must be designed so that student progress (or lack of progress) is immediately evident. Read more in ‘Reading Intervention That Gets Striking Results’ https://wp.me/p4hKgx-VW (4 min read).
Contact us: https://www.thinkingreading.com/contact/
All our materials are developed specifically for secondary students. Thinking Reading is not an adaptation of a primary school programme. Contact us for more on how we can support your students: https://www.thinkingreading.com/contact/
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Great Substack from @carlhendrick.substack.com
discussing a study by Ataman, Beyersmann, Castles, and Wegener, published 24 March 2026. Links to paper (open access). Thank you, Carl.
Orthographic Skeletons: Can Children Start Learning How Words Are Spelled Before They’ve Seen It In Print?
“. . . is not formed by ambient exposure; it is formed by the interaction of specific oral knowledge with specific phoneme-grapheme knowledge.” 👏🏼
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Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.
🇫🇮🇺🇦 President of Finland Stubb:
Ukrainians are destroying more than 30,000 Russian soldiers every month. At the same time, the Russians are no longer able to replenish them. We're getting closer to the moment when there might have to be a general call from the Russian part.
Thank you to Epping St John’s C of E School for a wonderful visit this week. Alice Ball saw this incredible purpose built Thinking Reading room. This is an amazing development in a school that is changing the script for its students.
Today, March 25, 2026, marks the finish of a multi-day Ukrainian operation to turn off the whole of Russia's Baltic oil and gas hub: Ust-Luga, Primorsk and Vyborg.
After Ukrainian strikes, the ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk stopped shipping oil.
Many children will learn to read regardless of the teaching method used, but a significant proportion will need systematic, explicit instruction. If a student has reached adolescence with reading problems, the situation is more complicated. Our program enables them to catch up completely & quickly.
The longer we wait to intervene effectively, the harder it gets.
Read more in our blog on teaching struggling readers ‘There is Hope’ https://wp.me/p4hKgx-kU (4 min read).
Does your school have a group of weak readers whose progress you can’t seem to shift? Talk to us: we are experts in solving what has previously seemed insoluble. We can provide data to prove the impact our program has had for other schools. Email via link: https://www.thinkingreading.com/contact/
Being a poor reader increases a child’s vulnerability. Our promise to schools is that the students they think can’t learn to read, will learn. Not only that: they will catch up rapidly & completely. If you would like these results for your students contact us for a free, no obligation, consultation.
The words ‘power’, ‘host’, ‘potential’, ‘impotent’, ‘possible’, ‘posse’, and ‘to possess’ all contain the same Proto-Indo-European word: *pótis, meaning “master”.
Click my new graphic to learn how they evolved through derivatives in Latin, sound changes in Romance, and borrowings into English:
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