Rooted in Reading passports: an introduction
It occurred to me recently that, although Rooted in Reading has now been around for over a decade, there are still many teachers out...
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steve246253
- Apr 1, 2019
- 4 min
Reading comprehension: as easy as pie!
Listening recently to Andy Hargreaves talking about professional capital on YouTube, I was struck by his definition of the third element...
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steve246253
- Jul 27, 2018
- 5 min
Gaps – vocabulary, reading and NATE Conference
I am updating this blog, which dates from July 2018, in January 2022. The issues it highlights have been considerably exacerbated by...
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steve246253
- Nov 6, 2016
- 4 min
Should we abandon reading for pleasure? Part 2
A couple of years ago I wrote my first blog with this title, which, if you are interested, you can read here. My thesis in that post was...
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steve246253
- Nov 14, 2015
- 4 min
Personal Best and the 5 key features of Growth Mindset: making it real
Photo credit – Suffolk Maths http://www.suffolkmaths.co.uk/pages/1growthmindset.htm You will have seen many diagrams by now explaining...
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steve246253
- Oct 29, 2015
- 2 min
Personal Best Academy – the planning stage
So, after not posting anything for several months, I now plan to start on a series of posts outlining the setting-up, training stages and...
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steve246253
- Jul 12, 2015
- 2 min
Personal Best – growth mindset and literacy
On Thursday 16 July we will be holding a launch party and press event for Personal Best at LA Mare de Carteret High School, Guernsey at 9...
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steve246253
- Apr 17, 2015
- 3 min
Literacy, meaning making and social and cultural capital: six thoughts
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to spend a morning listening to David Didau talking about literacy. Like all good inset, this...
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steve246253
- May 4, 2014
- 3 min
Environmental Givens: Researching reading and Growth Mindset
When I was growing up I was taught to look for the explanation of all human qualities, actions and phenomena in the environment in which...
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steve246253
- Jan 11, 2014
- 3 min
Evolution, the developing brain and the power of reading
Alison Gopnik wrote The Philosophical Baby back in 2009 and I think that in it she tells us many things about the development of...
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steve246253
- Apr 28, 2013
- 8 min
Becoming a Reading school – Ofsted case study
Kirk Hallam Community, Technology and Sports College, Derbyshire has embraced Rooted in Reading as a central plank of its whole school...
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steve246253
- Apr 14, 2013
- 3 min
Question Fans
My ex-colleague, @JaninLincoln first came up with the idea of the Question Fan about 3 years ago. She put together a set of question...
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Joe Wicks, Functional Fluency and teacher observation
This blog was written a while back and then forgotten about. Since then Functional Fluency International has developed considerably. It...
The 15 Rooted in Reading Principles
Back in November 2010 I was invited to go down to London to lead a research seminar at the DfE on the reading for pleasure promotion...
How we became a school that reads
The following piece by Ben Wilkinson and Sonja Bredgaard was published on The Guardian's teacher blog back in 2012. Interest in reading...
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