World Book Day 2020: books that have inspired us…

To celebrate World Book Day 2020, the Primary English team have gathered together to share pivotal books that have inspired them along their reading...

Picturebooks to treasure…and inspire!

In this guest blog, Kat Jackson of High Beeches Primary School, Harpenden, shares a new initiative that has brought picturebook treasures into...

KS2 Reading Fluency project: text selection guidance – Years 3 & 4

Selecting texts with the power to turn around a reluctant and struggling lower key stage 2 reader can be a challenge. These top-notch texts have been...

KS2 Reading Fluency Project: text selection guidance

Selecting texts with the power to turn around a reluctant upper key stage 2 reader can be a challenge...

Read like nobody is watching

Thought-provoking rationale and strategies for nurturing active readers.

Developing reading: high quality, subject-specific CPD for primary practitioners

The Herts Primary English team share their extensive range of high quality, subject-specific CPD for the coming monthsm with reading firmly at the...

A Reading Blog

Reading is an environmentally triggered skill. You have to be taught in order to learn. Children, however are not blank slates. The experiences they...

Developing Vocabulary: a Pointless activity

Michelle Nicholson shares some practical strategies for developing vocabulary with a particular focus on exploring closely related words.

Spelling: tracking back to move forward

Michelle Nicholson explores the importance of building links to prior learning to help close gaps in children’s spelling.

Our Journey to a Reading Revolution

In this guest blog, Cowley Hill Primary School share their exciting journey towards creating an irresistible school library.