Literacy Leadership
Does it matter if some can’t read?
Although nearly everyone would subscribe to the ideal of universal literacy, there are plenty of pragmatists in education…
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Recommended Reading for Adolescent Struggling Readers: Fiction Series
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How to find out what works in ‘What Works?’
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Choosing an Intervention: Who Does It Help?
To know if an intervention is effective, we need to know who it helps most. Schools are rightly…
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Allies and Friends
It takes a movement to conquer illiteracy. It was a tough decision. Would I stay in my school,…
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12 Qualities of an Effective Reading Teacher
Good systems need good people to deliver them. To have real impact, an intervention must have two things:…
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Seven ways to increase a student’s chances of exclusion
Our actions can have serious, if unintended, consequences for students. No doubt we would all be appalled by…
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Reading Crisis? What Crisis?
The reading problem in our secondary schools is serious but solvable. I have long been pleased that the…
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Six Ways to Help Struggling Readers in Your Classroom
How we treat reading problems in the classroom affects student outcomes – and our stress. There is often…
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New Horizons for Struggling Readers at Secondary School
Addressing serious reading problems creates new horizons for students – and schools. One of the most stubborn problems…
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Beware the Reading Traps
Avoid the pitfalls lying in wait for school leaders seeking help for struggling readers. If we can read,…
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A Heart for School Improvement
What one issue lies at the heart of school improvement? You are reviewing your school improvement plan, weighing…
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Can We Do More With Less?
Effective use of resources depends on how well we know our students’ needs More than ever, head teachers…
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Climbing Mountains in Small Steps
Learning moves faster in small steps. ‘Bottom set.’ Two words that can make the colour drain from our…
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I tried that and it didn’t work . . .
Education has a reputation for being subject to fads, where new ideas are adopted and then dropped. It…
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How to save time and money through screening
There is a well-known framework for intervention, known as Response to Intervention (RTI), which proposes that students can…
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Are grammar schools the best way to address social mobility?
You may think that providing disadvantaged children with the opportunity to attend a grammar school – supposedly resulting…
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The Loneliness of the Literacy Coordinator
Actually, most of the literacy co-ordinators I know are sensible, well-adjusted and have lots of friends! But there…
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Struggling readers in the secondary English classroom
“They just can’t access the texts.” This is one of the most frequent comments we hear when we…
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The Bigger Picture
I have been inspired by #picbookday today! It’s reminded me how important picture books (and books in general) have…
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It’s Not Too Late
Our second session at ResearchED English and MFL, Oxford was entitled It’s Not Too Late to draw attention…
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Wars and Waste
Our first session at ResearchED English and MFL, Oxford was called Wars and Waste to highlight two key…
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