Reading Blog Posts

• Reading skills and mental health difficulties: what’s the link?

  21 Jul 2021

  • Francesca Bentivegna

  
• Is reading for pleasure in childhood good for your health?

  17 Feb 2020

  • Francesca Bentivegna

  
• Improving language development: read, play, discuss

  14 Feb 2020

  • Julia Badger

  
• Measuring pupil progress: are we measuring the wrong things?

  24 Jan 2020

  • Rachel Symons

  
• Lesson observations have no impact on Maths or English GCSE scores

  26 Jul 2019

  • Pooky Knightsmith

  
• Only phonics instruction is proven effective for treating reading disability, says systematic review

  25 Apr 2014

  • Alison Jones

  
• Sit together and read… Oh, and discuss the print to help with spelling.

  23 Oct 2012

  • Leah Tomlin

  
• Cochrane review inconclusive about the impact of music education on the reading skills of children with dyslexia

  10 Oct 2012

  • Leah Tomlin