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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steve246253
- Jan 12, 2020
- 2 min
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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steve246253
- Jan 6, 2020
- 1 min
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
- Oct 13, 2017
- 5 min
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
- 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
- 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
- Nov 23, 2014
- 2 min
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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steve246253
- Oct 25, 2014
- 5 min
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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steve246253
- Jan 18, 2014
- 3 min
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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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
- 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
- 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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steve246253
- Jan 19, 2013
- 3 min
Recording progress in independent reading for pleasure – a free tool
Some commercial reading promotion projects incorporate detailed record keeping systems that allow schools to monitor the amount of...
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steve246253
- Jan 12, 2013
- 2 min
Cultural Enrichment Passport
Cultural Engagement Passport Back in June, at the Lincolnshire Headteachers’ Conference, we launched our new Cultural Engagement...
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steve246253
- Jan 12, 2013
- 2 min
Rooted in Reading Teacher’s Passport
Initially I didn’t really want to write a separate reading passport for teachers but following discussions with staff at Bishop...
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steve246253
- Jan 8, 2013
- 2 min
Why parents should read for pleasure.
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...
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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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