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Five easy ways to get started with Rooted in Reading
Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...
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Oct 16, 20242 min read
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...
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Dec 2, 20213 min read
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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Nov 23, 20214 min read
Rooted in Reading – 5 key benefits of the blue reading passport
The second passport we produced, the blue one, was conceived as a more primary-orientated version of the original green passport. The...
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Jan 19, 20202 min read
Rooted in Reading: 10 things you need to know about the original green passport
1. The green passport was the first one in the series. Indeed, when I wrote it I thought it would be the only one but then when my...
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Jan 12, 20202 min read
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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Jan 6, 20201 min read
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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Apr 1, 20194 min read
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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Jul 27, 20185 min read
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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Nov 6, 20164 min read
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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Nov 14, 20154 min read
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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Oct 29, 20152 min read
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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Jul 12, 20152 min read
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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Apr 17, 20153 min read
Should we abandon reading for pleasure?
I have nothing against reading – I am a massive supporter of reading. It can have a very positive impact on many aspects of people’s...
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Nov 23, 20142 min read
Creative Accounting – a response to Tom Bennett’s TES article 10 October 2014
In this article, Tom Bennett presents a strongly worded attack on the notion that creativity is not currently being effectively taught in...
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Oct 25, 20145 min read
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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May 4, 20143 min read
Reading – the third component
Reading Alison Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby, which examines what new research into the way children’s minds work and develop tells us...
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Jan 18, 20143 min read
Choice and Voice: Honouring Readers' Rights - Rooted in Reading at the Doncaster Conference
Participating in the OU Reading for Pleasure conference in Doncaster recently was a great experience. The conference was a dynamic...
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Introducing the Functionally Fluent School Leadership programme
In the recent Teacher Wellbeing Survey conducted by the NASUWT, 86% of teachers surveyed said that their job had had a negative impact...
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Five easy ways to get started with Rooted in Reading
Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...
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