My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday.

Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it.

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Nearly 5,000 views in two weeks for this ~9 minute video introducing teachers to the most important things to know about reading.

Thanks to everyone who has watched and/or shared it.

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Similar with reading. Let’s just read interesting books and ask them questions about the story and the language involved. There’s no need to write answers to ‘prove’ we are doing comprehension.

Reading the new report on EYFS and this resonates so much.

It’s not that we ‘ban’ kids from writing at length. They can do that in free flow, but let’s give them the foundations so that when we want to teach them the process of writing it is enjoyable.

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