I work in a large primary school consisting of children from all sorts of backgrounds and cultures right in the heart of Nottingham. In...

Last year, we asked teachers, authors and researchers to help us create a KS1 and KS2 reading spine based on Doug Lemov's 'Reading...

Having taught in Year 6 for many years, I was well aware of the endless simile and alliteration lessons I had hammered into children so...

Whilst scrolling through my Twitter feed a few weeks ago, I noticed a fantastic poster showing the locations of book settings across the...

Last year, I looked into a range of possible 'Home/School Reading Diaries' for children in school. Ours was internally produced and in...

Without a shadow of doubt, the last few years have seen some truly wonderful children's books being released. From Sky Song to Squirrels...

How many times have we all said, “Read it with a little more expression,” to one of the children in class who is robotically decoding...

Some Reading Thoughts As a Year 6 teacher, I've been thinking long and hard about teaching reading (especially since the SATS tests have...