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My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday (27th January). Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>

I can’t recommend this highly enough. Christopher Such cuts through numerous common problems and misconceptions in primary reading.

Thank you so much to everyone who has shared a photo of their copy of Primary Reading Simplified. It genuinely means the world to me.

*New post!* Choral response & 'I Say You Say' are two techniques I use with high frequency during my explanations. Although they seem simple, there is a lot of thinking behind them. bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/cho…

📈 'This is one of the most significant challenges facing the curriculum and assessment review, but it is also an immense opportunity' Prof Becky Francis buff.ly/3EYS2UT

If you want to know some of the ideas at the heart of my new book, Primary Reading Simplified, then the blog in the next post might be of interest... ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Bit of an experiment this morning! Turned my latest post into a short film 🤣 Link to actual post in thread

Have been referring to these great books this week: How To Explain Absolutely Anything to Absolutely Anyone: The art and science of teacher explanation amzn.eu/d/8hruECB #Amazon by Andy Tharby /1

And Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching by Zach Groshell Both Ben Erskine & I finding them uber helpful /2 amzn.eu/d/1XCFbaa

A thread that everyone in education should read and bookmark- thank you Peps

If you do di poorly, it is still not that bad. If you do it well, it’s the best teaching possible. However, if you do inquiry “well”, you’ll surprise the heck out of me. The closest I’ve seen was “di lite.” More often, you see inquiry done poorly, which is a dumpster fire.

If I've ever taken the time to reply to a request from you for advice on here - and you have read Primary Reading Simplified - please consider *retweeting* this tweet and giving the book a quick rating (or even a review) from where you bought it.

Today I’m announcing the first 300 of the new school-based nurseries we promised. Through our Plan for Change we’re delivering the best start in life to children in every corner of our country.

The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Just **retweet** this tweet to have a chance to win. The winner will be selected 19th April.

Recently met a school leader. I suggested consistent procedures & clear directions so expectations were not ambiguous. He said: “I’m just not sure it’s the job of adults to be telling young people what to do.” If that’s you, there’s a good chance you have the wrong job.

Every word of this post is beautiful & true. It is all too easy to lower our expectations of what children can do. We must guard against this by being open to challenge about whether we expect enough, not just with respect to curriculum, but also with behaviour & character.

18 Years A Head - NPQEL🦩📚 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸(she/her) Stan Dupp After another break, it's back on Headteacher preparation today and nose back into 'The Headteacher's Handbook'. Curriculum design is today's chapter cc Ben Erskine and Mary Myatt

**New blog** - It's been a while so retweets hugely appreciated. The Most Common Reason Why Children Don't Become Fluent Readers... And What We Can Do About It ⬇️⬇️⬇️