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  • Top tips for encouraging your child to read

    by Ellie Grout
    How can we encourage young people to read more? Sadly, there is no one-size-fits-all solution, otherwise we'd have rocketing literacy levels, booming book sales, and people walking round with their noses buried in books rather than their eyes glued to screens!
    Posted in English, Literacy, Parenting, Reading, reading for pleasure

  • Once a reader, always a reader...?

    by Ellie Grout
    So what could have altered my reading journey? I had great role models in my parents who between them read and still read a wide range of fiction and non-fiction; I was capable of reading and I enjoyed it when I found the right book; and as I found whilst at university, my enjoyment of literature increased hugely when I was able to discuss it with other people.
    Posted in English, Literacy, reading for pleasure, reading slump, Routines, Starting Secondary School