We partner with secondary schools to ensure that struggling readers catch up rapidly & completely. Poor reading is a teaching problem. We change the teaching.
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2026 is the @educationgovuk year of reading : our podcast is about the many children who leave school unable to read properly. We look at the reasons, the impact & the solutions. Available wherever you get your 🎧 #edutwitter
In Episode 2 of "Inside the Reading Gap" we explore the correlation between imprisonment and poor literacy. You'll hear expert @charlie_taylor6 explore this link & the challenges of improving literacy in the prison environment. Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
Looking for a new podcast to listen to on your commute tomorrow? Our series "Inside the Reading Gap" is a succinct 4 part series, about literacy problems & explaining how to solve them. We show that teaching can change lives. Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧.
Changing the teaching turned around the fortunes of these students - they are now GCSE ready. Why couldn’t the same be true in your school? They could be ready in time. See more case studies & contact us here : thinkingreading.com/case-stu…
In Conversation with Carole Herman: Executive director of the Association of Secondary Heads in Essex, headteacher at 2 secondary schools. She brought about major changes to the school's approach to literacy & the life chances of her students. 'Inside the Reading Gap' wherever you get your podcasts
Teaching reading effectively is one of the cheapest, most useful things we can do as a society. It is central to social justice. If you want to see more equality, make sure all children leave school reading well.
Kathy Rastle is Prof of Cognitive Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London & one of the most important academic voices on teaching reading. You can listen to "In Conversation with Kathy Rastle" (15 minutes) on "Inside the Reading Gap". 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
🎧 We know how to teach all children to read and these solutions are far cheaper than the ongoing costs of illiteracy. Thank you to Rebbeca Perry @Literacy_Trust who joined us on "Inside the Reading Gap" to discuss the impacts of low literacy.
Gains like these are transformative for the students. Their lives have been changed & their educational trajectories altered. If you would like to see these results for your pupils, contact us here: thinkingreading.com/contact
Ep 8 : "In Conversation with Tony Giles" Principal of Mahurangi College @gilesboys . How do teachers fix an achievement gap in literacy? Listen to the experts on "Inside the Reading Gap" wherever you get your podcasts. Essential listening for all interested fixing this problem.
In Conversation with Distinguished Professor Pamela Snow : renowned internationally for her advocacy of evidence-based reading instruction. She talks about educational fallacies & what must change. Listen to "Inside the Reading Gap" wherever you get your podcasts.
In our podcast "Inside the Reading Gap" we explore what ‘functional’ illiteracy means, the ways it impacts lives, and the costs to us as a society. And all this raises the question: how did we get to this place, when we fund education for every child to the age of at least 16?
Kathy Rastle is Prof of Cognitive Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London. She is one of the most important academic voices in the world on the teaching of reading & can hear her on "Inside the Reading Gap" Ep 10, wherever you get your podcasts.
Looking for a new podcast to listen to on your commute tomorrow? Our podcast series "Inside the Reading Gap" is a succinct 4 part series. Reading problems are solvable and explain what it takes & we show that teaching can change lives. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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If you're planning to talk about Sold a Story with your colleagues or friends, you can try out a draft version of our new discussion guides. Give us feedback. We're still working on them. Final version will be out with Ep 7. righttoreadproject.com/sold-…
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Sold a Story Season 2 is out. features.apmreports.org/sold…
You can hear episodes 1 and 2 today.
Then it's one episode a week, on Thursdays, through Nov 19.
60 interviews, across 4 countries. We talked to researchers, head teachers, teachers, literacy specialists, criminal justice experts, charities & children & adults who have struggled to read. Thank you to everyone who has listened, commented & shared. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
We can also be found on LinkedIn:
🔗 Dianne Murphy: linkedin.com/in/dianne-murph…
🔗 James Murphy: linkedin.com/in/james-murphy…
🔗 & Thinking Reading: linkedin.com/company/thinkin…
Congratulations to @ehanford and the team for bringing the story of Engelmann’s Direct Instruction - & the clash of philosophies it exposes - to a wider audience. Sold a Story 2 is a wonderful listen : we have loved hearing Zig & others talk about the remarkable power of Direct Instruction.
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We interviewed researchers, head teachers, teachers, literacy specialists, criminal justice experts, charities and, importantly, children & adults who have struggled to read.
"Inside the Reading Gap" looks at the scale and depth of poor literacy in society, the impact on individuals and the social and economic costs. We also look at what schools must do to prevent thousands of functionally illiterate school leavers going into their adult lives ill-equipped for its challenges.
Finally, we show that it's possible to teach virtually all children to read and the life-changing power that reading brings. It's challenging, but it's also a message of hope.
We hope this trailer (sound on 🔈) resonates with you and helps you to see why good literacy for ALL underpins everything else in the education system.
You can listen to all 4 episodes on our website (see bio) or wherever you get your podcasts.