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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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…