Mr B Reads
@mrbreads.bsky.social
Teacher - Year 4 & English Lead. Big fan of Jesus, my wife, my son, my dog, Billericay Town, board games and books.
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Mr B Reads
@mrbreads.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Anyone else on here keep getting shown videos of Bill Clinton's vice-president dancing? Must be something to do with the Al Gore rhythm. 🤷♂️
Today's options are possibly my favourite historian, Richard J. Evans, or definitely one of my favourite #Kidlit authors, @mazevansauthor.bsky.social. I guess I'm just a fan of Evanses 😂 any relation?? #readingteachers #history
September 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Today's options are possibly my favourite historian, Richard J. Evans, or definitely one of my favourite #Kidlit authors, @mazevansauthor.bsky.social. I guess I'm just a fan of Evanses 😂 any relation?? #readingteachers #history
@bridgeanne.bsky.social Hi Anne. Hoping you remember me and my wife from Canterbury! Don't know if you're still active on the platform formerly known as Twitter, but I've dropped you a message over there (Bluesky is trying to make me verify my age for the privilege!) Hopefully talk soon :)
September 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@bridgeanne.bsky.social Hi Anne. Hoping you remember me and my wife from Canterbury! Don't know if you're still active on the platform formerly known as Twitter, but I've dropped you a message over there (Bluesky is trying to make me verify my age for the privilege!) Hopefully talk soon :)
The moments that make it all seem worth it! What's everyone reading this holiday? #PrimaryEduSky #EduSky #ReadingTeachers
July 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The moments that make it all seem worth it! What's everyone reading this holiday? #PrimaryEduSky #EduSky #ReadingTeachers
Delighted to be confirmed as reading lead for next year with two main foci: to embed @suchmo83.bsky.social's reading lesson structures and to become a true reading for pleasure centre. Any tips (on either of the above) are most welcome!
July 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Delighted to be confirmed as reading lead for next year with two main foci: to embed @suchmo83.bsky.social's reading lesson structures and to become a true reading for pleasure centre. Any tips (on either of the above) are most welcome!
Anyone recommend any archaic texts for Year 3 or 4? Purely reading focus, short enough to be finished in a half-term or across whole spring term. Struggling! Thanks :) #PrimaryEduSky
July 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Anyone recommend any archaic texts for Year 3 or 4? Purely reading focus, short enough to be finished in a half-term or across whole spring term. Struggling! Thanks :) #PrimaryEduSky
Emerging from a report-writing haze to enjoy something which isn't work! What a time of year! #readingteachers #BookSky
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Emerging from a report-writing haze to enjoy something which isn't work! What a time of year! #readingteachers #BookSky
Reposted by Mr B Reads
If you are in the Cambridgeshire area and want to hear me talk about an evidence-informed approach to teaching reading post-phonics, then this Thursday's after-school session might be of interest. ⬇️
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Evidence Bites: Extra
Join us for a networking event with an inspiring talk by Christopher Such - ‘Primary Reading Simplified’
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May 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
If you are in the Cambridgeshire area and want to hear me talk about an evidence-informed approach to teaching reading post-phonics, then this Thursday's after-school session might be of interest. ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evidence-b...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evidence-b...
Firmly believe that teachers should also be learners. Anyone got any fun academic interests that are as obscure as my obsessions with the #SpanishCivilWar? #History #UKEduSky #BookSky #ReadingTeachers #PrimaryEduSky
April 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Firmly believe that teachers should also be learners. Anyone got any fun academic interests that are as obscure as my obsessions with the #SpanishCivilWar? #History #UKEduSky #BookSky #ReadingTeachers #PrimaryEduSky
Definitely recommended! We are trialling basing our whole reading curriculum on the approach outlined in the book from next term, which is a huge undertaking but one we think will reap huge rewards!
If I've ever taken the time to reply to a request from you for advice on here (or the other place) - and you have read Primary Reading Simplified - please consider *reposting* this post and giving the book a quick rating (or even a review) from where you bought it.
April 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Definitely recommended! We are trialling basing our whole reading curriculum on the approach outlined in the book from next term, which is a huge undertaking but one we think will reap huge rewards!
I mostly refrain from politicking here, but I'm a big fan of someone doing this to a roadsign for 'The America' in my village 😂 Well-played, neighbour! #BritishHumour #America #Mexico
March 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I mostly refrain from politicking here, but I'm a big fan of someone doing this to a roadsign for 'The America' in my village 😂 Well-played, neighbour! #BritishHumour #America #Mexico
Love that this is being openly discussed and taken seriously!
BBC News - Lost boys report: Young men are in crisis due to fatherlessness - BBC News
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BBC News - Lost boys report: Young men are in crisis due to fatherlessness - BBC News
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Lost boys report: Young men are in crisis due to fatherlessness
Fatherlessness is impacting on boys' mental health, education and future prospects, a report finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Love that this is being openly discussed and taken seriously!
BBC News - Lost boys report: Young men are in crisis due to fatherlessness - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Lost boys report: Young men are in crisis due to fatherlessness - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Best day of the school year! Happy #WorldBookDay everyone! Today I was inspired by the awesome work of @kieranlarwood.bsky.social and the unbelievable illustrations of David Wyatt! #ReadingTeachers #PrimaryEduSky
March 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Best day of the school year! Happy #WorldBookDay everyone! Today I was inspired by the awesome work of @kieranlarwood.bsky.social and the unbelievable illustrations of David Wyatt! #ReadingTeachers #PrimaryEduSky
Loveliest school visit this week from Jennifer Killick. Pupils bursting with excitement from start to finish! Big thank you to @bookwagonuk.bsky.social for facilitating book sales. Highly recommended for ease, customer service and for just clearly being book people! ##readingforpleasure #edusky
March 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Loveliest school visit this week from Jennifer Killick. Pupils bursting with excitement from start to finish! Big thank you to @bookwagonuk.bsky.social for facilitating book sales. Highly recommended for ease, customer service and for just clearly being book people! ##readingforpleasure #edusky
Quite surprised by this @teachertapp.bsky.social result. Personally hated school and never foresaw myself entering one ever again once I left. Guess the Lord/fate/providence/sheer comic coincidence had other plans!
February 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Quite surprised by this @teachertapp.bsky.social result. Personally hated school and never foresaw myself entering one ever again once I left. Guess the Lord/fate/providence/sheer comic coincidence had other plans!
Finally getting the chance to dig into this from @suchmo83.bsky.social! #PrimaryEduSky #EduSky #ReadingTeachers
February 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Finally getting the chance to dig into this from @suchmo83.bsky.social! #PrimaryEduSky #EduSky #ReadingTeachers
@elsie2110.bsky.social
Hiya. Messaged on the other place but I imagine you are more active here, as I am. I think that after years of edusocial connectedness you may possibly have observed my maths lesson this week in cambs??
Hiya. Messaged on the other place but I imagine you are more active here, as I am. I think that after years of edusocial connectedness you may possibly have observed my maths lesson this week in cambs??
February 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
@elsie2110.bsky.social
Hiya. Messaged on the other place but I imagine you are more active here, as I am. I think that after years of edusocial connectedness you may possibly have observed my maths lesson this week in cambs??
Hiya. Messaged on the other place but I imagine you are more active here, as I am. I think that after years of edusocial connectedness you may possibly have observed my maths lesson this week in cambs??
So, who else is rocking the half-term lurgy...? 😭 #UKEduSky #PrimaryEduSky
February 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
So, who else is rocking the half-term lurgy...? 😭 #UKEduSky #PrimaryEduSky
Bidding farewell to the weekend with mine and Mrs B. Reads' early Valentine's present to each other: Mosaic. If I can control the Mediterranean, I'll be fine in my classroom... #GamingTeachers #BoardGames #BoardGameSky
February 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Bidding farewell to the weekend with mine and Mrs B. Reads' early Valentine's present to each other: Mosaic. If I can control the Mediterranean, I'll be fine in my classroom... #GamingTeachers #BoardGames #BoardGameSky
Sooooo excited for our visit from Jennifer Killick next month!!! Can highly recommend @bookwagonuk.bsky.social for facilitating visitor book sales (and any school-related book sales, actually!). #ReadingForPleasure #ReadingTeachers
January 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Sooooo excited for our visit from Jennifer Killick next month!!! Can highly recommend @bookwagonuk.bsky.social for facilitating visitor book sales (and any school-related book sales, actually!). #ReadingForPleasure #ReadingTeachers
Delighted to receive a biiiiig order of books for school this week. Beautiful picfic, novels, non-fiction and graphic novels. Think I may be most excited about this selection though... @barringtonstoke.bsky.social #readingteachers #primaryedusky #edusky #booksky
January 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Delighted to receive a biiiiig order of books for school this week. Beautiful picfic, novels, non-fiction and graphic novels. Think I may be most excited about this selection though... @barringtonstoke.bsky.social #readingteachers #primaryedusky #edusky #booksky
It's 11th January and I think I may already have read the best picture book I'll read all year... @dc-litchfield.bsky.social, this is a thing of BEAUTY! KS1 teachers / English Leads / PSHE leads, get this ordered for school! #PicFic #PictureBooks #ReadingTeachers #PrimaryEduSky #EduSky #BookSky
January 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's 11th January and I think I may already have read the best picture book I'll read all year... @dc-litchfield.bsky.social, this is a thing of BEAUTY! KS1 teachers / English Leads / PSHE leads, get this ordered for school! #PicFic #PictureBooks #ReadingTeachers #PrimaryEduSky #EduSky #BookSky
I could read exclusively from these shelves in 2025 and be fully content with my literary diet! I have an 'inkling' some of you will be able to spot the theme... #CSLewis #Tolkien #Narnia #LordOfTheRings #ReadingTeachers #BookSky @prancingponypod.bsky.social
January 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I could read exclusively from these shelves in 2025 and be fully content with my literary diet! I have an 'inkling' some of you will be able to spot the theme... #CSLewis #Tolkien #Narnia #LordOfTheRings #ReadingTeachers #BookSky @prancingponypod.bsky.social
@suchmo83.bsky.social
Hiya. Any update on release of your new book? Amazon showing 8 Feb but I think you mentioned on a podcast that it may be sooner than that?
Hiya. Any update on release of your new book? Amazon showing 8 Feb but I think you mentioned on a podcast that it may be sooner than that?
January 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
@suchmo83.bsky.social
Hiya. Any update on release of your new book? Amazon showing 8 Feb but I think you mentioned on a podcast that it may be sooner than that?
Hiya. Any update on release of your new book? Amazon showing 8 Feb but I think you mentioned on a podcast that it may be sooner than that?
One of my favourite pieces I've written and the one which has most affected my own reading habits.
What are you planning to reread this year?
#BookSky #ReadingTeachers #EduSky #PrimaryEduSky #PrimaryRocks
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What are you planning to reread this year?
#BookSky #ReadingTeachers #EduSky #PrimaryEduSky #PrimaryRocks
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Rewind, Revisit, Reread
Why should rereading play a bigger role in our reading lives?
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January 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
One of my favourite pieces I've written and the one which has most affected my own reading habits.
What are you planning to reread this year?
#BookSky #ReadingTeachers #EduSky #PrimaryEduSky #PrimaryRocks
mrbreads.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/r...
What are you planning to reread this year?
#BookSky #ReadingTeachers #EduSky #PrimaryEduSky #PrimaryRocks
mrbreads.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/r...
My #GraphicNovel adventure continues... This image could do a term's worth of creative writing prompt! #ReadingTeachers #KidLit #PrimaryEduSky @mrs-primary.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My #GraphicNovel adventure continues... This image could do a term's worth of creative writing prompt! #ReadingTeachers #KidLit #PrimaryEduSky @mrs-primary.bsky.social