The Rooted in Reading Award and student attainment
The Rooted in Reading Award passport was originally designed to be reading’s equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The tasks are...
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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
- Jan 4, 2014
- 4 min
Readicide – schools and reading
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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steve246253
- May 31, 2013
- 3 min
FLOW and reading for pleasure
Reading is a creative activity as a number of researchers have pointed out. Holden, in Creative Reading (2004) makes the case that...
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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
- Mar 23, 2013
- 4 min
Reading for pleasure report and the National Curriculum for English
The National Curriculum for KS3 English states that students should All pupils must be encouraged to read widely across both fiction and...
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steve246253
- Mar 16, 2013
- 4 min
The Guardian blog about Rooted in Reading
Interest in reading usually drops off once children go to secondary school. The Rooted in Reading scheme is helping reverse that trend....
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steve246253
- Feb 16, 2013
- 2 min
The 2017 Rooted in Reading Implementation Plan for Schools
Here is a suggested plan to help schools set up and embed the reading promotion project, Rooted in Reading. Define Decide on target year...
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steve246253
- Feb 3, 2013
- 4 min
Rooted In Reading at LCHS 2010-2012
Here is a detailed report on the introduction of the Rooted in Reading passports and the impact they had in a large comprehensive school...
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steve246253
- Feb 2, 2013
- 1 min
The Need to Read
Nottinghamshire- based performance poet, Louise Ashley was so inspired by the ideas behind Rooted in Reading that she wrote the following...
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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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