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Q&A: Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know about Reading

Jun 21, 2020 | Category: reading

If you missed it, here's a link to the presentation I gave in my webinar on Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know about Reading.There were a number of question that I didn't have time to answer duri...

#Reading

Why we need to read aloud

May 27, 2020 | Category: reading

Here is the recording of webinar I gave for #LDeduchat this week on 'Why we need to read aloud'. The prerecorded presentation lasts for about 25 mins with the rest of the time given over to Q&A.If you...

#Reading #following along

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 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

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