A couple of weeks ago, I watched Last Chance Academy, a Panorama documentary about an academy...
Can’t Read, Won’t Read: Part One
The Matthew Effect Or, how resolving reading difficulties at secondary school is different from...
The Road Goes Ever On
'You will always have students who will fail.' This response from my tutor teacher to my concern...
What Does Mastery Really Look Like?
One of the problems with a conception of learning that is focused on ‘understanding’ is that it...
Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science
How many phonemes are there in the English language? How many different ways are there to...
Code-Teaching or Code-Breaking?
Code-breaking is what you do when you don't know the code. There are two main approaches to...
The Bridge Over The Reading Gap
How can secondary schools ensure that all students read well? The cost of illiteracy in the UK has...
The Writing On The Wall
“It would be good if your training programme presented a more balanced view.” This oft-posed...
A question of expectations
Students’ progress can be inadvertently limited by the things we do as teachers. For example, if...
Why is there a reading problem in secondary schools?
The glib answer that many secondary schools would give is: because there is a reading problem in...