The theory says it is illogical to think that we need to find the reason for a child’s slow progress. For a psychologist this is a real...

We talk a lot about skills and effective learning with Total Words, but the whole approach was built on feeling the need to change the...

Before and after measures make sense. We measure what a child can do, teach them, and measure again to see what they can do now. It’s a...

I keep thinking of the long slow dull grinding down that some kids experience at school; so few experiences of real achievement, so few...

The first thing is how many children in the UK are not acquiring adequate reading skills. We have more texts more books, more experts in...

If at first you don’t succeed, find out what will succeed. If, at first, a child has not made progress in reading, find out what will...