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💥Hot News Alert📷We are super excited to launch our 2025/26 Memberships! Check out the full package here as it is far too big for a post! We've managed to beat inflation & even work in a cheeky discount! Together, we can transform whole school literacy! literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pric…

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"Reading is central to everything across the curriculum" and we need to do more for "disadvantaged children", Phillipson says about the govt's Yr8 reading test. tes.com/magazine/news/…


#BlackFriday is back! Join us before the end of November and receive 15% off! Let's make 2026 your year of every adult in school reading to your students every day! literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pric…

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Join us before the end of November and receive 15% off!

Let's make 2026 your year of every adult in school reading to your students every day!

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Whole Books or Excerpts? Which Does the Most to Promote Reading Ability? shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/whole-boo…

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I want to believe reading full texts is clearly superior to reading extracts, but @ReadingShanahan explains we have no evidence for this claim and why it likely isn’t the case. Full texts *and* extracts, with lots of quality talk & writing for the win.

Whole Books or Excerpts? Which Does the Most to Promote Reading Ability? shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/whole-boo…

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⚙️🚨NEW RESOURCES ALERT 🚨⚙️ December's resources are now live featuring: ⚙️ Should video games be considered a sport? ⚙️ The 1st female MP ⚙️ Ozzy Osbourne ⚙️ Have you ever wondered why boxes of chocolates are getting smaller? Check them out now: literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/gear…

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December's resources are now live featuring:
⚙️ Should video games be considered a sport?
⚙️ The 1st female MP
⚙️ Ozzy Osbourne
⚙️ Have you ever wondered why boxes of chocolates are getting smaller?

Check them out now:
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Everyone must be thinking to be learning - but what are they thinking *with*? teacherhead.com/2025/10/29/eve…


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Well done to @PoltairSchool - named in the top 20 schools in England for 'Most Improved English & Maths G5+' It's an incredible achievement and a true testament to the everyone involved in supporting our learners to thrive. #ExceptionalEducationExperience

CeltAcademies's tweet image. Well done to @PoltairSchool - named in the top 20 schools in England for 'Most Improved English & Maths G5+' It's an incredible achievement and a true testament to the everyone involved in supporting our learners to thrive.
#ExceptionalEducationExperience

This #RemembranceDay, ditch the YouTube clips & send a powerful message that reading is the primary medium for learning. Our FREE resources offer knowledge-rich, extended reading that honours history & builds understanding. Power up your Tutor Time here: literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/reme…

LiteracyEngine's tweet image. This #RemembranceDay, ditch the YouTube clips & send a powerful message that reading is the primary medium for learning.

Our FREE resources offer knowledge-rich, extended reading that honours history & builds understanding. Power up your Tutor Time here:
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/reme…

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Just an in school inset day today and half term can begin. Looking forward to working on some really exciting @LiteracyEngine projects next week. Watch this space!


If you want to add some extended reading to your #RemembranceDay programme this year, check out our FREE packs. They include 5 different texts, each in a Core and Simplified Language Version. See how non-fiction reading can transform your Tutor Time. literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/reme…

LiteracyEngine's tweet image. If you want to add some extended reading to your #RemembranceDay programme this year, check out our FREE packs.

They include 5 different texts, each in a Core and Simplified Language Version.

See how non-fiction reading can transform your Tutor Time.
literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/reme…

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I've been thinking about what teachers mean when they say, "I want kids to love reading," or "I want kids to 'be readers.'" Because they mean a very specific, culturally-constructed type of love that looks a certain way. It looks like a mirror of these teachers. (1/9)


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This last quote! I hear this all of the time. The problem is teachers who say this think students need to want to read for pleasure like they do. Not all people "love" to read, and that's ok. People read in the real world for multiple purposes and not necessarily bc they love it.


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The idea that novice learners learn best- or at all- from inquiry is one of the most ubiquitous and damaging ideas in education. It’s astonishing how a sector that literally specialises in teaching and learning can get it so dramatically wrong when it comes to the instruction…

Comment during a PD: “We need to get away from I do, you do, we do and move to inquiry.”



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The formula that best helps us understand how to develop skill is this: knowledge + practice = skill. Anything that looks like a skill is composed of knowledge. Skill emerges through the practice of applying that knowledge. open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…

5/ While many subjects are skill-heavy, Science is knowledge-heavy. The pupils who achieve are those who can recall the most information. The best practical skills in the world won't save a student who cannot recall the fundamental laws and definitions required by the exam.



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An English degree does not merely involve reading poetry and fiction. It involves studying history, religion, philosophy, sociology, psychology. Which was why for many years it was the most popular (and also most difficult) subject to get in to read.


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Before students can do any thinking, they need something to think about. Fill them with knowledge as a priority, especially so in literacy. Knowledge of the world around them and component knowledge of the language. Knowledge is the Bedrock of Literacy 👇 Link in 1st comment 👇


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