Reading For Pleasure

This year, I'm teaching the same class as I taught last year. In fact, I started at the school with this class when they were in the fin...

'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...