I work in a secondary school library and we use Librarika librarika.com It's free for small libraries up to 2000 books. As our library has expanded, we've had to upgrade to the paid version, but it's always been easy to use and reliable.

No problem at all – I enjoyed reading it and writing the review! Explaining why a letter is in a word is a really powerful tool when you’re dealing with teenagers who think the English language has been designed that way just to annoy them! Your book should be a really useful resource for teachers.

Highly recommended if you’re looking for some etymological half-term reading 😊 Full review here: www.theliteracyhub.co.uk/recommendati...

Also need to consider the lost learning time caused by testing. Every year I have to take time out of my job (which is to support struggling readers at secondary school!) to help out with administering national tests.

Mysterious Benedict Society series by Trenton Lee Stewart, Skandar series by A.F. Steadman, Pages & Co. series by Anna James, and Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. All with strong fantasy and/or adventure elements, which sounds like a good fit with the ones you mention.

Agree that using dyslexia diagnoses to allocate funding reinforces the disadvantage gap. I've received staff emails such as 'X has a dyslexia diagnosis. Please make sure they are on your list for intervention.' We should give help to pupils who need it most, whether or not they have a diagnosis!

For dyslexic pupils, I still need to do the same reading (ORF, single word reading, nonsense words), spelling and writing assessment that I use for other pupils who may need intervention.

Completely agree. As a reading/spelling intervention tutor at a secondary school, I don't find a dyslexia diagnosis/report helpful for deciding what to teach a pupil - the information is not specific enough to tell me exactly what their difficulties are.

*nerdiness (need to work on my morphology 😉)

Thanks - I agree 🙂 That bridge between research and teaching is a really interesting place to be - you get the interest of keeping up with the latest papers plus the satisfaction of trying to make a practical difference to students!