Reading For Pleasure

'Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventual...

Dear Deer, Today I realised something very exciting! Did you know that you’re all readers now, every single one of you? I don’t mean t...

Hearing about children's reading at home after we return to school following a school holiday is an important part of our classroom rout...

Over the past 18 months, my school has been heavily involved in working with the Empathy Lab project, which uses books and reading as a sta...

Last weekend, the third Patron of Reading conference took place at the DoubleTree Hotel in Manchester. It was on a whole different level fro...

There have been lots of great blog posts from teachers about reading appearing over the past few days so here are links to a few of them tha...

After a hectic, but very enjoyable, few weeks travelling around the country to various literacy conferences and helping organise a R4P Teac...