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Dear parent: why your dyslexic child struggles with reading

On the Guardian's education blog today, Professor Maryanne Wolf explains, in a letter to parents of children with reading problems,…

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Recommended Reads: A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness  A Monster Calls is written by Patrick Ness, from an idea sprung from the…

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Tackling Child Poverty and Social Mobility Reports

This month the Government published two different reports, one called A New Approach to Child Poverty: Tackling the Causes of…

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Maryanne Wolf: Reading is not Natural

It seems like the most natural thing in the world for many of us now but a long while ago,…

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ENDZ on Tour in Liverpool Communities

From tomorrow (Tuesday 19th April) Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse will be touring their new show Endz - No Word of…

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Get Into Reading Newsletter for Young People

April has seen the first Get Into Reading Young Person's Newsletter come into publication and it's just so great, we…

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Zadie Smith and Wile E. Coyote

Following on from Rob's post about Zadie Smith's essay on libraries, she mentioned how abandoning shared institutions once one no…

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Frank Cottrell Boyce pens new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang books

A new series of books featuring that famous flying car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is being written by Our Read…

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All Aboard for Our Read!

World Book Day, Thursday 3rd March, will soon be upon us - and that means it's Our Read time! As…

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Reading in Practice MA 2011 enrolement

The Reader Organisation is involved in the development of the part-time MA degree in Reading in Practice, working with Professor…

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Featured Poem: Contentment by Oliver Wendell Holmes

So...another Christmas Day has come and gone and the weeks and even months of preparation have all melted away, even…

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Christmas Poem: Christmas In The Olden Time by Sir Walter Scott

That time of year is here once again – it seems like barely a month has passed, never mind twelve…

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