The brilliant Tọlá Okogwu - UPDATES ONLY now speaking and signing books this afternoon at ASCL Literacy and Oracy Conference World Book Day UK 📚

Another winner in one of our prizes - shipping Christopher Such latest book today 📚🌟

Yes, stand J8 today Schools & Academies Show Come visit us to learn how we: • Improve reading at scale; • Elevate the profile of reading trust-wide; • Evidence impact.

Top tip for teachers. If you don't win it, buy it.

This Thursday. Birmingham. Hoping to see you on Thursday at the Confederation of School Trusts SEND and Inclusion conference, supported by Ambition Institute Academy21 and AutismEducationTrust.

“The novelization of literature does not imply attaching to already completed genres a generic canon that is alien to them, not theirs. The novel, after all, has no canon of its own. It is, by its very nature, not canonic.” Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination

"The best book I’ve read in the past year is the journal of American naturalist Henry David Thoreau, which is always on my bedside table." - Ludovico Einaudi #AmReading

“The word in language is half someone else’s. It becomes ‘one’s own’ only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word...” - Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination

"Over the 10-week program, each student made approximately a year's progress in their reading age. The platform was easy to use... and made a noticeable difference in their confidence and reading skills." Read more here: buff.ly/3Sm9Dw5 #Reading #Literacy

"The intensity of social media, the pressures of a high stakes exam system, and the uncertainty created by political and environmental turmoil, are all threats to the positive mental health of 'Gen Z.' " - Young People on the Margins

"We have little prescience about where the world is going and even less about where particular students are going." - David N. Perkins, Future Wise #ReadingWiseLibrary

“The Year 7’s progressed well and gained huge confidence with their reading... it is great to see their fluency and confidence improving.” Transition is a critical time for pupils. Working quickly to improve reading among cohorts that need additional support is vital.

"And what can be more important than the education of children and young people?" - Leora Cruddas, New Domains of Educational Leadership

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough, or a book long enough.” ~ C.S. Lewis

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.” ~ Jorge Luis borges

Chiara has been visiting The Howard School today and shared some pics of their displays. 📚 😀 If your school would a poster you can always complete these forms... 👇 Comprehension: buff.ly/PgQEh1p Vocab: buff.ly/7AFrYQ1

Primary schools and vocabulary... Delighted to have received this case study from Dalmilling Primary School where they use our Vocab module to great effect. Fantastic document! #Literacy #Reading #Vocabulary

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ~ Margaret Fuller

Primary to secondary school isn't just a building change—it's a massive vocabulary leap. Professor Alice Deignan delivered an excellent key note at Monday's National Literacy Trust Secondary Conference exploring this theme. Read our notes here 👉 buff.ly/WYraZGv