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Do we teach children to love reading? Part 1

Sep 12, 2016 | Category: reading

This sounds like a really obvious question but, after listening to Frank Furedi at researchED on Saturday and subsequently reading his book, The Power of Reading: from Socrates to Twitter, I've realis...

#Reading #researchED #Frank Furedi #instrumentalism

What is the Phonics Screening Check for?

Jul 17, 2016 | Category: reading

In case you don't know, the Phonics Screening Check (PSC) is a test given to 5-6 year olds at the end of Year 1 in order to establish whether pupils are able to phonically decode to an appropriate sta...

#Phonics Screening Check

What every teacher needs to know about... students who leave secondary school unable to read

Apr 25, 2016 | Category: reading

Many thanks to the good folks at Teach Secondary magazine for publishing yet another of my incoherent rants. This time I set my sights on the lamentable and inexcusable failure of secondary schools...

#Reading #Teach Secondary

Phonics is not a cure for cancer

Dec 30, 2015 | Category: reading

Do antibiotics work? Well, that rather depends on what you've got. If you've got a viral infection like influenza antibiotics will be useless. To fight viral infections you need to use antiviral drugs...

#phonics #Stephen D Krashen

Only phonics? A reader replies to Michael Rosen Part 2

Dec 29, 2015 | Category: reading

Following yesterday's post from Jacqui Moller-Butcher in which she responds to Michael Rosen's anti-phonics arguments, one of the complaints that has repeatedly emerged is the idea that phonics is not...

#phonics #Michael Rosen

The most interesting books I read this year

Dec 20, 2015 | Category: reading

For no particular reason other than that it's almost the years' end and making lists always seems appropriate as December draws to a close, and in no particular order, here are ten of the most interes...

From Scared Straight to Reading Wrong

Oct 24, 2015 | Category: reading

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the b...

#Daniel Willingham #Matthew Syed #decoding #James Finckenauer #phonics

Reading is a rebel act: on the role of school libraries

Jul 13, 2015 | Category: reading

"My library was dukedom large enough" The Tempest, Shakespeare"The act of poetry is a rebel act." Farewell to English, Michael HarnettSome people are never happy. After writing my last post on how it...

#libraries

How do you get students to read for pleasure?

Jul 11, 2015 | Category: reading

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."Marcel ProustReading seems to make us smarter. Here's Keith Stanovich explaining why:https://www.y...

#Keith Stanovich #National Literacy Trust #reading for pleasure

What to know: the importance of cultural capital

Apr 04, 2012 | Category: reading

Let's face it, we need to know to stuff if we're going to have anything resembling a successful life. But what is it we need to know? As an English teacher I have a fair bit of fairly arcane knowledge...

#knowledge #Daisy Christodolou #Reading #cultural capital #Janet Street Porter #Shakespeare