New reading fluency guidance materials produced in collaboration with the Education Endowment Foundation

Two new tools designed to support practitioners in developing pupils’ reading fluency, created by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) in...

Reading Fluency: Training for Teachers

Leading up to a special focus on reading fluency and the outcomes of our collaboration with the EEF, Kathy Roe brings shares the current picture for...

Year 6 writing at greater depth (GDS): quick wins, guidance and helpful materials

Martin Galway unpicks some potential quick wins and additional guidance to help you get the best possible outcomes from the final stretch of teaching...

Everything flows: is there such a thing as writing fluency?

Is there such a thing as writing fluency? This blog explores some of the ways by which we might help young writers to draft with more confidence.

Text collections – or should I say connections?

Jane Andrews looks at the power of curating book collections to promote reading connections and deeper understanding of content.

Teaching poetry

Thirty years teaching poetry as part of the primary curriculum.

HfL KS3 Reading Fluency Project: a practice-based review

Follow one KS3 practitioner’s quest to find the holy grail of reading interventions: could her search be over?

Ensuring diverse representation across the primary English curriculum: reflecting on our National Primary English Conference

Following our hugely successful conference looking at diverse representation in the Primary English curriculum, this blog gathers session details...

Only connect: reading development, empathy, and why it matters

An exploration of how fostering deeper connections in reading can be supportive of wider reading development. Includes a reading list for our recent...

Reading Fluency Project 2021-22 – Where are we now?

As another year is drawing to a close, we reflect on the HfL Reading Fluency Project and where we are now.