The focus is changing! It’s exciting to see the shift in attitude and intent towards teaching...
Reading Intervention That Gets Striking Results
We often find ourselves answering questions about the striking results that Thinking Reading...
What Every Secondary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading
We haven’t posted much for the last few months because we’ve been putting our energies into a book...
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...
Climbing Mountains in Small Steps
Learning moves faster in small steps. ‘Bottom set.’ Two words that can make the colour drain from...
Reading is Knowledge
We shouldn't confuse skills with knowledge One of the most discussed topics in education today is...
Seven Steps to Improving Reading Comprehension
We often test comprehension, but how do we teach it? In the so-called reading wars, all sides...
Building on the Evidence
How do you start to build an evidence base? We all know that it’s important to know the evidence...
7 Misconceptions About Teaching Adolescents to Read
The scale of the problem of students leaving secondary school unable to read is an...
Success, failure and self-concept
For as he thinks in his heart, so he is . . . - Proverbs 23: 7 Learning is not a solely...