Delivered an online staff meeting last week around building reading cultures in classrooms, with lots of practical ideas and tips (plus some research). The link is here if anyone wants to use it as a starting point. Hopefully, it's useful to people. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/rea…

Having just listened to Rumblestar on Audiobook ( not sure why it took me so long to start this glorious series!), I am very excited about this new release!

Pretty sure this will be in my top 10 #FavePicturebooks24 (we’re only in April)

“Two Together” by Brendan Wenzel is a truly joyous book about, perspectives, adventures and love. The art is simply stunning with clever use of materials adding to the story-telling #PicturebookPage

This looks ace 👌. Thanks for the recommendation Duke Skywalker

'Nosy Crow has bought another middle-grade title, Game Zero, by Christopher Edge, as sales of his 2022 bestseller, Escape Room, surpass the 100,000 TCM mark. Slated for spring 2025, the new book is dubbed 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow on the set of The Legend of Zelda.'👀

Have you read this brand new beauty from Michelle Harrison? It's a quirky, creepy, time-twisty murder mystery. I loved it! 🧡

Do join us at our FREE Newsletter Live this week! rb.gy/uj6rs0 It’ll be fast and fun! ⭐️Jon Biddle Sonia 17 Years A Head - NPQEL🦩📚 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸(she/her) The brilliant⭐️ ⭐️Nadia Shireen ⭐️is with us and ace picture bks are being shared! Adele Darlington Rich Charlesworth Ben Harris

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Do try and make the time to listen to Teresa Cremin talking with Bedrock Learning about reading and writing for pleasure, digital literacy and the importance of the social aspects of reading. A fantastic interview with so much to think about. bedrocklearning.buzzsprout.com/1791150/146689…

The next Reading for Pleasure 🧶 UKLA conference takes place in June. A superb line-up, with author keynotes by Hannah Gold & Matt Goodfellow, plus workshops from Teresa Cremin, Sam Creighton, Charlotte Squirrell, Angela Jenkins, Imogen M16, Tobias Hayden & more. Info: ourfp.org/2024/04/18/rea…

Just ate about half a kilo of tablet imprinted with my own name. Weird times. Weird, delicious times.

Anyway GHOSTLINES proofs are going out into the world. I feel quite sick, for myriad reasons.

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A bit of SATs spelling analysis 👇🏼

There are 8 KS2 spelling domains (highlighted below in my Learning by Questions analysis) that have appeared in every paper so far (since 2016), with the most common being S38, S47 (both Y3/4) and S49 (Y5/6).

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Teachers, I've made some videos where I share my top writing tips. If you've not seen them yet, please check them out, and it would be great if you could share them with your teacher mates 👇

That cover!😍

A couple of new arrivals today. Been waiting far too long for this instalment of SIKTC.

The ante is well and truly upped in this sequel from Sarah Soh and Tim Fraser. Juniper finds out more about The Guarduan Knights before disaster strikes! Beautiful contrasts between the neon city and the natural world of the forest. Thrilling and gorgeous.👍
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Loved this! 6 delightful sisters - 1 difficult dad- 1 ancient granny. ⭐️A spellbinding literary novel Lucy Strange packed with mystery, suspense, camaraderie and care ⭐️Jon Biddle ReadingRocks Reading at LLP Hilary McKay

Perhaps instead of continuing to perpetuate negative tropes that are harmful to those with disabilities, publishers could instead place more £££ into marketing existing authors and illustrators already writing and reflecting positivity instead?

Any book by Aaron Becker is top of the must have list. #TheLastZookeeper is yet another remarkable piece of work from Aaron Becker. Like every single one of his books it demands re-read after re-read. Thought-provoking parable and a stunning cry for action. Paul Watson Simon Smith