Literacy Leadership
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Learning to Read – what started going right?
Eighteen months ago, a parent shared her struggles to help her child, who was having reading difficulties. Here,…
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Change for the Better
Good ideas can fail quite easily without careful leadership In our last two posts, here and here,…
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Low Fidelity
Without fidelity, we can’t expect reliable outcomes – and crucially, we won’t know what went wrong. In…
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High Fidelity?
Education does not have an evidence problem – it has an implementation problem. In recent years we’ve seen…
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Finding the Right Partner
Successful collaboration is all about ‘fit’ Thinking Reading is mission-driven, not sales-driven. We partner with secondary schools to…
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Ofsted and literacy – a two-edged sword?
Many readers of this blog will know that we have been working for some years to raise the…
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Thinking and Reading
The well-known statement, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world” is attributed to the…
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Whose Responsibility?
It came as a shock to see a letter in the Sunday Times demanding that parents be held…
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Am I to Blame?
Following our last post about whether schools should be holding parents accountable for children’s reading, a mother wrote…
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Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51 – review
This week I watched a documentary called “Jay Blades: learning to read at 51”. The experience was both…
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When is a crisis not a crisis?
Claims of a crisis can distract us from dealing with the real crisis. Another Sunday morning, another ‘literacy…
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How to Build Independent Learners
The adage, ‘everything works somewhere and nothing works everywhere’ can result in teachers dismissing effective practices because they…
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Results or Outcomes?
While the current round of results is seen as an avoidable fiasco, the real value of education has…
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Papering over the Reading Gap
What does the adoption of a ‘visual stress’ approach to reading difficulties tell us about the state of…
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Total War on Illiteracy – or Dad’s Army?
A recent news report gave us the alarming news that as a result of remote learning during the…
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Because Reading Was Never ‘Just Phonics’
A recent Twitter discussion demonstrated that an old idea is still alive and making trouble, namely, that secondary…
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Your Key to Catch-Up After Lockdown – Reading
When students return to the classroom, catch-up will be the single biggest priority for schools. More than ever,…
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A Salute to the Quiet Heroes
To say ‘what a year’ would be an understatement. 2020 is a year that’s going to be etched…
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Life Changes
Here’s an update from our lead trainer, Alison Rounce (@ali_rounce) on the many changes she has been managing…
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On Reading
In recognition of Dyslexia Awareness Month, we are re-sharing this post, originally written in 2014. Unfortunately, it is…
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How to get long-term benefit from your tutoring funding
Lockdown has undoubtedly set back many children’s education, but without doubt the most seriously affected are those who…
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