Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...

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...

The following piece by Ben Wilkinson and Sonja Bredgaard was published on The Guardian's teacher blog back in 2012. Interest in reading...

The second passport we produced, the blue one, was conceived as a more primary-orientated version of the original green passport. The...

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...

It occurred to me recently that, although Rooted in Reading has now been around for over a decade, there are still many teachers out...

The Rooted in Reading Award passport was originally designed to be reading’s equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The tasks are...

Alison Gopnik wrote The Philosophical Baby back in 2009 and I think that in it she tells us many things about the development of...

Kelly Gallagher’s 2009 book Readicide is subtitled How schools are killing reading and what you can do about it. This gives a very clear...

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Reading is a creative activity as a number of researchers have pointed out. Holden, in Creative Reading (2004) makes the case that...

Kirk Hallam Community, Technology and Sports College, Derbyshire has embraced Rooted in Reading as a central plank of its whole school...

The National Curriculum for KS3 English states that students should All pupils must be encouraged to read widely across both fiction and...

Interest in reading usually drops off once children go to secondary school. The Rooted in Reading scheme is helping reverse that trend....

Here is a suggested plan to help schools set up and embed the reading promotion project, Rooted in Reading. Define Decide on target year...

Here is a detailed report on the introduction of the Rooted in Reading passports and the impact they had in a large comprehensive school...

Nottinghamshire- based performance poet, Louise Ashley was so inspired by the ideas behind Rooted in Reading that she wrote the following...