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...

Photo credit – Suffolk Maths http://www.suffolkmaths.co.uk/pages/1growthmindset.htm You will have seen many diagrams by now explaining...

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...

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to spend a morning listening to David Didau talking about literacy. Like all good inset, this...

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...

In this article, Tom Bennett presents a strongly worded attack on the notion that creativity is not currently being effectively taught in...

Reading Alison Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby, which examines what new research into the way children’s minds work and develop tells us...

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

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...

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

Some commercial reading promotion projects incorporate detailed record keeping systems that allow schools to monitor the amount of...

Cultural Engagement Passport Back in June, at the Lincolnshire Headteachers’ Conference, we launched our new Cultural Engagement...

Initially I didn’t really want to write a separate reading passport for teachers but following discussions with staff at Bishop...

It will surprise few of us that recent research has found a direct link between how often a child’s more reads for pleasure and their...