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Reading is more than academic
We are privileged to work with some very smart, kind and caring people. Recently we asked for anecdotes about the...
Is teaching children to read really ‘rocket science’?
Some people resist this description of the knowledge that teachers need. Not so long ago, the general attitude to...
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, she...
Change for the Better
Good ideas can fail quite easily without careful leadership In our last two posts, here and here, we have considered...
Low Fidelity
Without fidelity, we can’t expect reliable outcomes – and crucially, we won’t know what went wrong. In our last post,...
High Fidelity?
Education does not have an evidence problem – it has an implementation problem. In recent years we’ve seen a rising...
Finding the Right Partner
Successful collaboration is all about ‘fit’ Thinking Reading is mission-driven, not sales-driven. We partner with...
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 importance of reading in...
Thinking and Reading
The well-known statement, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world” is attributed to the philosopher...