Vivid Chapter 2 is out today, on patreon.com/GreatrexWriting Please consider reading it to KS2 children at school and home. #alopecia Alopecia UK #readingforpleasure patreon.com/posts/13138132…

My favourite take-away from Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 English Association conference today was the invitation to open your head (&/or heart?) to a poem, instead of prising open the poem (often, with a curriculum-mandated crowbar). Gems to share with students English at Aston University 1/2

Poetry as a bridge between speaking & writing; as a scavenger of language; as portable 💼. It reminded me of my first PhD student Daniel Xerri writing on metaphors for poetry in education. 2/2

Beautiful Conference English Association, the might of #poetry to give agency and voice to our children and young people. Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 honour to hear you speak and learn about the unique craft of oral writing, “hand on your life, feel the rhythm of time.” #readingforpleasure

Highly recommend Martin Impey ‘Blitz’ for #KS2 and older, full of rich details, depicting the experience from the child’s POV and flooded with the brevity of emotion. It’s an absolute gift for us all. Was so amazing to meet you Martin, truly inspiring work! #readingforpleasure

Oo I’ve been waiting for this! Always a brilliant and active learning day, full of research, love, empathy, caring practitioners and the BEST community going. Get your golden ticket! Matt (Manic Street Teachers) Julie Doyle a reunion surely?! 📕 ❤️ #readingforpleasure

What a glorious day it is, when you read children's work and can hear an eclectic mix of expressions and phrases that you have shared together through a rich diet of beautiful and memory-making books!

Bouncing off a carousel soon, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures: Young People, Texts, Cultures 17.1 - Ponies; Alanis Morissette; first kisses; Blerds' comic & manga fan culture; YouTube read-alouds; & empowerment in the Ravens catalogue. Plus a peek at gendered YA Shakespeare 🐧 in my editorial.

Do read and share this new Position Paper online.fliphtml5.com/baqlf/dgfh/#p=1 Underpinned by international research and free to access Reading for Pleasure 🧶

Win a Brilliant Summer Reading Bundle! Get ready for sunshine, stories and lots of laughs! Love picture books as much as we do? Follow us to enter: 1. FOLLOW 2. LIKE & SHARE 3. TAG friends Closes at 11.59pm 31/7/25 UK only. T&C's bit.ly/2Y29d33 #giveaway

People interested in the National Year of Reading may find my little booklet on 'Reading for Pleasure' useful. #NationalYearOfReading

Good news re the National Year of Reading 2026! ⭐️ Department for Education and National Literacy Trust - ⭐️ Reading connects us all - looking forward to it! ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️

Delighted to support the National Year of Reading 2026 🎈🎈 Department for Education delivered by National Literacy Trust and all those committed to turning the page and changing ‘the nation’s reading culture’ nationalyearofreading.org.uk Do join in! 🎈 🎈 🎈 🎈

Today the Writing Framework was published Department for Education - 🖊️ worth sharing and planning in time to discuss this Autumn 🖊️ gov.uk/government/pub… The Writing Web ✍🏾 Kelly Ashley #WordPower Sonia Ellen Counter

Booknic 2025 is next week. Learner led choices and free reading and drawing stations. This has created a huge book buzz and informal book talk at school. So delighted to implement this at my small school. #readingforpleasure #kidslit

What an honour to speak at the #EYFS #Suffolk Conference this summer. Sharing all things #readingforpleasure and how our youngest children have reading identities, considering the ways we can support them and ourselves to foster a love of RfP. Breaking barriers and opening doors.

Out now! #BfK273, our #summer special! Authorgraph interview Kenneth Oppel, Windows into Illustration Jarvis, new Beyond the Secret Garden, new Picture This, Nikesh Shukla on reading for pleasure + interviews, new #childrensbook reviews & more #KidLit 😎booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-273-…

The right book at the right time and somehow they do find you if you look. #readingforpleasure

Audiobooks for all! Spotify and generous publishers are helping make the #SummerReadingChallenge more accessible by offering free audiobooks this summer! Find out more: readingagency.org.uk/spotify-suppor… #StoryGarden #SpotifyAudiobooks

The Reading for Pleasure 🧶 team, led Teresa Cremin , has conducted research into What on Earth! Books Magazine, exploring how non-fiction can be used to engage children and encourage reading 4 pleasure. #nonfiction #readingforpleasure #magazine