Professor of Education (Literacy), The Open University. Fellow EA, RSA and AcSS. Committed to social justice and reading for pleasure.
RfP Website: https://ourfp.org
Own profile: https://www.open.ac.uk/people/tmc242
Teresa Cremin
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Looking forward to facilitating a Talking about Texts Matters workshop at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social and National Literacy Trust conference next week!
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We’ll be mardling about mags and music! @jonbiddle.bsky.social do join us!
Wow ! Such a rich, fun and authentic session with Nate Lessore today and 2000 Young people! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social
Last call for our Reconnecting Teens and Texts Conference - March 6th- Milton Keynes. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overcoming... It’ll be an inspiring day! We have just 5 tickets left! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social @rootedinreading.bsky.social
Last call for our Reconnecting Teens and Texts Conference - March 6th- Milton Keynes. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overcoming... It’ll be an inspiring day! We have just 5 tickets left! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social @rootedinreading.bsky.social
"We can't make children read for pleasure... but we can entice, invite, model, engage..." @teresacremin.bsky.social
It was interesting to listen to the Education Select Committee session on the decline in the number of children reading for pleasure.
This is why we slowed down our phonics learning and built in a school wide reading for pleasure programme (thank you @teresacremin.bsky.social and team). CLPE has helped us to shift away from atomised grammar and we have 'every place is a reading place' nooks and crannies all over. Our kids ❤️ books.
I’m really proud to have worked on this new podcast series with @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social.
We worked with teachers and school leaders to discuss what taking a strategic approach to World Book Day looks like.
‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’
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👏 Huge congratulations to @teresacremin.bsky.social on being awarded a CBE for services to education in the 2026 King’s New Year Honours List. Any Little Wandle members who have attended her Reading for Pleasure sessions will know just how well deserved this is.
With the National Year of Reading now here, a few people have asked if I'm running the online 'Building a Classroom Reading Community' session again. Doing it twice, on Sun 11th Jan and on Mon 12th Jan.
Sun 11th Jan
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Mon 12th Jan
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Matthew Courtney
Dr Debra Kidd
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Hetan Shah
Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised
Jon Biddle
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From the full report:
"Despite the regular comprehension HQIM use and focus...in 67% of the lessons, teachers and students engaged in work (i.e., instruction, engagement, and activity) that only facilitated students’ surface-level understanding of texts."
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Nick Covington
Jan 2026 Report - In Some Urban Districts, Science of Reading Limits ‘Robust Comprehension’: Rather than promoting deeper literacy skills, the phonics-based approach 'may unintentionally encourage teachers to focus on surface-level goals.'
Nick Covington
Rather than promoting deeper literacy skills, the phonics-based approach 'may unintentionally encourage teachers to focus on surface-level goals.'
How should we understand the intentions of authoritarians who mandate the "Science of Reading" at the same time they ban books and build barriers to library access?
Iowa lawmakers advance bill prohibiting partnerships between public schools and libraries:
Nick Covington
The bill would prevent school agreements with public libraries to provide students with access to books and other materials.
