We partner with secondary schools to ensure that struggling readers catch up rapidly & completely. Poor reading is a teaching problem. We change the teaching.
May 1, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
1. We have been struck by the number of schools using coloured paper / overlays as standard interventions for children with reading difficulties. We did an informal Twitter poll & at the time of writing, 74% of the 1,120 respondents said that their school uses this approach.
2. While a poll like this is by no means scientific, it does suggest that coloured overlays / paper are used widely and present in many, if not most, schools. This is a cause for concern. Why? A 🧵
Sep 4, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
1. Today's headline '175,000 11-year-olds starting secondary school are unable to read properly, Ofsted head warns'
Must we accept that a certain proportion of students will leave school illiterate to some degree? Does it matter if some can't read? 🧵
#EduTwitter#Literacy2. If you can’t read, you can’t participate in social discourse as others do. You have to adapt - or just fake it.
