ReadEasy
In England alone, 2.4 million adults are functionally illiterate. ReadEasy trains and equips volunteer coaches (and they’re always looking for more).
A few years of regular one-to-one sessions, using carefully structured resources, make reading and writing accessible to all sorts of people who missed out when they were younger. Working with them brings to mind some of the TV work I’ve done over the years
Poetry – wot r the rools?
Benjamin Zephaniah shares his poetic licence
Tom Leonard wrote poetry in Glaswegian. A work trip to Glasgow gave me the chance to collect reviews from non-academics for a Teachers’ TV series on ‘non-standard English’
Reading Recovery
A one-to-one approach briefly used in some UK primary schools
watch ‘Reading Recovery in school‘
watch ‘Training teachers in Reading Recovery‘
Phonics at primary school
A large Croydon school share their experiences
watch ‘Phonics without tears’
watch ‘Storytelling; reading, writing and role-play’ (KS1)