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If you are in a school in England you can access the 'Reading Ambition for All' training delivered by your local English Hub. I was delighted to be involved in developing this with Wandle English Hub and I'm so pleased that it covers teaching children with a complex profile of needs.

Applications for the 2024 UKLA Research Grants are now open! The Grants are open to all UKLA Members who are undertaking research projects in the world of literacy. See below to find out more: ukla.org/research/ukla-…

Hear more about this important research by signing up to our fully-funded webinar on 24th October, led by the BookTrust research team wandleenglishhub.org.uk/training-cpd

📚Reading aloud non-fiction matters. Really interesting study from Clarence Green, Ph.D and Kathleen Keogh which found that reading aloud informational and narrative picture books provides exposure to more lexical diversity, density and complex morphology, than narratives alone.

100 books by authors of colour wp.penguin.co.uk/wp-content/upl… Well worth a visit Matthew Courtney @benniekara Rachel Ayres Team English Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation Worth sharing too!

Just over a week to go until this fully-funded Wandle English Hub webinar with BookTrust. Join us on 24th Oct to hear about their latest research on children’s reading enjoyment and how we can build rich reading cultures in our classrooms. 🎟️Book here: wandleenglishhub.org.uk/training-cpd

Teachers can have a huge impact on children’s reading enjoyment. Thank you to Ly and Dan from the BookTrust team for sharing findings and implications from their important research at our Wandle English Hub Research into Practice webinar.

Join us on Tuesday 12th November for our next Research into Practice webinar. Alice Reedy Alice Reedy will share findings from her research on Reading for Pleasure and explore how we can build rich reading cultures in our classrooms. wandleenglishhub.org.uk/training-cpd

If a school understands the importance of reading for pleasure and enjoyment, it doesn't mean that they don't also understand the importance of phonics, fluency, comprehension and all the other essential aspects of reading. They're not mutually exclusive.

It was brilliant to meet Catherine McKinnell MP, Minister for School Standards, and Marsha de Cordova to share the work we do at Wandle English Hub and Chesterton Primary to support Reading for Pleasure and early reading in schools in our region.

The best book post! 📚 I can’t wait to read this important book from Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O'Connor “If you truly believe in the power of children’s literature & the right of every child to feel equal & valued in society, please read every single word” - Patrice Lawrence

Brilliant to hear Frank Cottrell-Boyce profiling the benefits of reading aloud and shared reading as he guest edits BBC Radio 4’s today show 📚

It was wonderful to work with Teresa Cremin yesterday to lead the Reading for Pleasure 🧶 Schools Programme conference day at Chesterton Primary The day was focussed on building a rich reading culture and we specifically explored Social Reading Environments and Informal Book Talk.