How can reading for pleasure support students' social and emotional needs as they return to school? NEW blog from St Matthew's Research School brings the EEF's SEL guidance report to life by looking at the example of reading for pleasure. Read here: buff.ly/3gSPiYb

Let's widen what counts as reading... 🧶Join the #CircleOfReading and share your #ReadingforPleasure choices beyond fiction!🧶 RT and share! #ReadingTogether Teresa Cremin

NEW BLOG: Getting transition right - four practical, evidence-based strategies to support pupils moving from Year 6 to Year 7 EEF's Kirsten Mould - a serving school leader and SENCo - highlights some of the provision her school is putting in place: eef.li/89FkUi

Guilty as charged! 🥰😳📚😳🥰

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New research from the Oxford University Press finds teachers across primary and secondary are worried about the impact Covid school closures will have on vocabulary development tes.com/news/coronavir…

Our final EEF News Alert of the school year was sent to its 36,000+ subscribers today - including this end-of-term message from our chief executive, Prof Becky Francis. You can read it here: mailchi.mp/eefoundation/n… Subscribe, free, here: eef.li/news-alerts

"Our ideas and activities are easy to build into your daily routine." The BBC's #TinyHappyPeople has been designed to develop children’s language and communication skills, based on expert advice and evidence. Find out more here: bbc.in/2Ovk5xX

We love to see children enjoying books & creative activities with their families. This week’s #StoryKitchen book Chapatti Moon by Pippa Goodhart has been used to inspire families to make their own chapattis & curry thanks to Food Nation. #SomethingtoSmileAbout @BlueStoneConsor

Love these! Reading is a gift that we give to our children 📚 CLPE

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NEW: Supporting reading at home - we have made several of our resources available in Polish, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, and Lithuanian. Here, for example, is '7 Top Tips to Support Reading at Home' in Bengali. Find them all here: eef.li/vx4q7h

Reading opportunities are everywhere. You can make anything a learning experience for your child, just follow the TRUST ideas to talk about anything your child enjoys reading: eef.li/vx4q7h Now with translations in Bengali, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi and Urdu.

'Meta-Analysis of Impact of Reading Interventions for Students in the Primary Grades' - review of 33 studies, mean effect size +0.39: bit.ly/3g0oRQ3 (Via Best Evidence in Brief: bit.ly/2ZU47E6)

In amending and improving my module on Literature in the Primary School I keep returning to the EEF Recommendations. I do think this useful poster will go a long way to encourage richer, critical discourses between students' on the links between theory and practice.

"The great thing about reading is that it turns human experience into a kind of object that you can look at and turn over," says Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 #TextualHealing

NOW RECRUITING We're looking for primary schools to join an EEF-funded trial of Flexible Phonics. The project aims to train Reception teachers to optimise and complement their existing phonics teaching. Find out more: bit.ly/32nI2PU

This week's #publisherinfocus is Lantana Publishing who publish inclusive children's books celebrating diversity, social equality & environmental sustainability. They believe all children deserve to see themselves in the books they read & we couldn't agree more. lantanapublishing.com