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Thinking Reading
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We partner with secondary schools to ensure that struggling readers catch up rapidly and completely.

Poor reading is a teaching problem. We change the teaching. #UKTeaching #EduSky #UKEd

Web: https://thinkingreading.com
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This is Alice, a trainer at Thinking Reading 📚
September 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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We can also be found on LinkedIn - if you're over do come and say hello! We'd love to connect with the reading and education community over there too. #UKEd #EduBlogUK
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September 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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One of our Directors of Training shares why she works at Thinking Reading 📚
September 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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We offer free half-hour consultations to talk over your whole-school and intervention strategies.

No obligation – we are on a mission and would love to share our experience. #EduSky
Collaborate with us to develop your literacy strategy. Call us on 01234 339 925
September 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Being more efficient relies on the quality and scope of our data.

Read more in our blog ‘Can We Do More With Less?’ wp.me/p4hKgx-z9 (4 min read).

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"Effective use of resources depends on how well we know our students' needs."
July 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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5. You will speak with one of our team who are all highly experienced teachers.

You can call us or complete our form to arrange for us to call you (head to our website). #EduSky

www.thinkingreading.com/faqs/
July 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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If you would like to see these results for your most vulnerable students do let us know.
Act now to help your most vulnerable students
July 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Addressing serious reading problems creates new horizons for students - and schools.

Read more in our blog ‘New Horizons for Struggling Readers at Secondary School’ wp.me/p4hKgx-D1 (3 min read).

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"If schools exist for anything, shouldn't they exist to eliminate illiteracy?
July 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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While every organisation needs finance for operational costs, including paying their staff, our focus is on successful implementation to achieve our mission.

We wrote this for anyone thinking about working with us : ‘Finding the Right Partner’ wp.me/p4hKgx-8au (2 min read).

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“Thinking Reading is mission-driven not sales-driven.”
June 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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We shouldn't wait for early readers to fail. Systematic teaching is best.

Read more in our blog ‘Looking Past the Masks’ wp.me/p4hKgx-qW (5 min read).

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"They will read when they are ready" Looking past the masks
June 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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We believe that fixing inequality in society begins with fixing inequality in education. Our book explains.

Thinking Reading - what every secondary teacher needs to know about reading

Link to our book: ow.ly/XPiV50VA9rl

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This book is for those who have committed themselves to educational justice; for those who believe that no child's future should be determined by their background. Thinking Reading: what every secondary teacher needs to know about reading.
June 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Is your school dealing with reading effectively? We have created a handy 7 point check list. Let us know what you think: ‘7 ways to tell if your school is addressing reading effectively’ wp.me/p4hKgx-We (3 min read).

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Are school leaders focused on ensuring that every student leaves school reading well?
June 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Recall is not 'lower order thinking'. It is foundational.

Read more in our blog ‘Seven Steps to Improving Reading Comprehension’ wp.me/p4hKgx-oi (7 min read).

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"There is no substitute for memory. Just as knowledge is important, so is the recall of that knowledge when it is needed."
June 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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It's this kind of impact that all the work has been for. There is so much that can be done and we are privileged to help schools to do it.

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Particularly proud of this aspect of our Ofsted inspection report: ‘The school has considerably strengthened its support for pupils who are learning to read. Pupils who need additional help, including with phonics, receive this regularly. This is enabling pupils, including those who speak English as an additional language, to catch up.’ This week we saw several more students graduating from our intervention program having made several years’ worth of reading gains in a matter of months - sometimes even weeks. Reading is the key to our providing properly inclusive education. Working with ‘Thinking Reading’ has been so transformative for those who need the most support. James Murphy Funda Shibli Hélène Galdin-O'Shea
May 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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11. We work with schools to eradicate adolescent illiteracy so that no student leaves school unable to read well, regardless of their background. If you would like to see these results for your most vulnerable students you can book a free, no obligation, consultation via our website.
Act now to help your most vulnerable students. Image : a boy is reading to his teacher.
May 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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We partner with secondary schools to ensure that struggling readers catch up rapidly & completely. Poor reading is a teaching problem. We change the teaching.

www.thinkingreading.com/contact/

#EduSky #UKEd
Set up a systemic literacy review today.
May 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Students who learn to read at secondary school almost invariably comment on how much more confident and calm they feel.

Read more in our blog ‘Can Reading Problems Affect Mental Health?’ wp.me/p4hKgx-ST (3 min read).

#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

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The shame of being a poor reader affects behaviour, undermines confidence, and gnaws away at self-esteem.
May 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Low attainment is a function of schooling, not ‘lack of ability’.

Read more in our blog ‘Six Ways to Help Struggling Readers in Your Classroom’ wp.me/p4hKgx-Dw (5 min read).

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"Students who haven’t learned to read well by Year 7 can nevertheless catch up quickly when given explicit systematic teaching.”
May 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Spending time planning what vocabulary to teach, and practising how to teach it efficiently, has a powerful payoff.

Let us know what you think: ‘The Bridge Over the Reading Gap – In-Class Support’ wp.me/p4hKgx-Zk (8 min read).

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“In the general classroom, explicit teaching of vocabulary probably has the greatest impact on the largest number of students for the time required.”
May 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Unfortunately, there are many parents who have to teach their children to read ‘in spite of’ the school.

Read more in our blog ‘Whose Responsibility?’ wp.me/p4hKgx-82z (4 min read).

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It’s not right for schools to absolve themselves of responsibility by blaming parents for reading failure.
May 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Engaging in, or condoning, practices based on false information maintains misconceptions and multiplies its influence.

Our blog on the use of coloured overlays in schools: ‘Papering Over the Reading Gap’ explains more wp.me/p4hKgx-7Xq (7 min read).

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The claim 'even if it doesn't work, it doesn't do any harm' is false.
April 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The literacy problem is bigger than you think. But, there are solutions! Our book will help.

Thinking Reading - what every secondary teacher needs to know about reading

Link to our book: www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Rea...

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This book is dedicated to the many, many children who attend secondary schools but who leave without being able to read. Thinking Reading: What every secondary teacher needs to know about reading.
April 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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There are more and less effective ways to teach.

Read more in our blog ‘There is Hope’ wp.me/p4hKgx-kU (4 min read).

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"It’s not the person – it’s the teaching that makes the difference."
April 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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We believe that fixing inequality in society begins with fixing inequality in education.

Link to our book: www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Rea...

#EduSky #UKEd
Thinking Reading - what every secondary teacher needs to know about reading "This book is for those who have committed themselves to educational justice; for those who believe that no child’s future should be determined by their background."
April 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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We have been analysing results from partner schools to show how struggling readers can catch up completely – and quickly.

One of our most read blogs of the last 12 months:

“Can Struggling Readers Catch Up Quickly? Completely?” wp.me/p4hKgx-8je (3 min read).

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“If you are worried about your students with reading problems, these case studies will give you hope.”
April 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM