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- Richard and Judy launch book club for children - BBC, Thursday January 27, 2011
Celebrities Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are launching a book club aimed specifically at children.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - JD Salinger 'was Tim Henman fan' - BBC, Thursday January 27, 2011
JD Salinger was a fan of tennis player Tim Henman and enjoyed eating burgers, previously unseen letters written by the Catcher in the Rye author show.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Jo Shapcott takes Costa book of the year award for Of Mutability - The Guardian, Tuesday January 25, 2011
Bookies' favourite Edmund de Waal misses out as judges praise Shapcott's 'very special and unusual and uplifting' collectionLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poets enlist for quest to pull St George from jaws of far right - The Guardian, Monday January 24, 2011
Ex-laureate Andrew Motion joins exploration of Englishness in works that redefine patron saint in 'agnostic liturgy'Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Join the Campaign for Fun! - The Guardian, Monday January 24, 2011
On what is officially the most miserable day of the year, it's a very good time to sign up to a drive to make children's reading fun again, says Jeremy Strong.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ofsted: Older pupils falter without phonics - Times Educational Supplement, Friday January 21, 2011
Phonics is seldom being used outside primary schools to improve literacy - and older students are falling behind as a result, Ofsted has concluded.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Surely we're shoved more than nudged - Times Educational Supplement, Friday January 21, 2011
I once asked an A-level English class to nominate the ugliest words in the language. The results - in ascending order - were "plop", "onus" (I think that's what they said) and "gusset", writes Geoff Barton.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Speech problems 'hamper children's reading ability' - BBC, Friday January 21, 2011
Delays in young children's ability to speak and listen properly are leaving them struggling to learn to read and write, Ofsted has warned.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove stresses 'facts' in curriculum revamp - BBC, Thursday January 20, 2011
Michael Gove hopes top British authors and poets will contribute to the debate about which books and poetry should be studied.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - National curriculum review: children to learn facts and figures in subject shake-up - Daily Telegraph, Thursday January 20, 2011
Children will be expected to learn the kings and queens of England, read great works of literature and master mental arithmetic under the biggest shake-up of the national curriculum for more than 20 years.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - National curriculum review puts emphasis on facts and 'vital knowledge' - The Guardian, Thursday January 20, 2011
Michael Gove spells out facts to be included in history and geography lessons in curriculum review that teachers condemn as elitist and outdated.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Could the success of King's Speech boost efforts to help children with communication difficulties? - The Independent, Thursday January 20, 2011
Say it loud: Specialised help with communication can transform the lives of pupils Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Speak the speech ... Shakespeare's plays to be performed in 38 languages - The Guardian, Thursday January 20, 2011
Globe theatre to stage all of the Bard's plays, each in a different language, as part of 2012 Cultural OlympiadLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Text messaging 'improves children's spelling skills' - Daily Telegraph, Thursday January 20, 2011
Mobile phone text messaging can boost children’s spelling skills, according to new research.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Write it don't type it if you want knowledge to stick - Daily Telegraph, Thursday January 20, 2011
Children and students who write by hand learn better than those who type, a study shows.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Liz Lochhead appointed as makar, Scotland's national poet - The Guardian, Wednesday January 19, 2011
'Inspirational presence in British poetry' is successor to Edwin MorganLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sherlock Holmes returns in official sequel by Anthony Horowitz - The Guardian, Monday January 17, 2011
Alex Rider author on the case, at request of Conan Doyle estate
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Library closures: Labour's fury as users are labelled white and middle class - The Observer, Sunday January 16, 2011
The shadow media and culture minister insists that libraries provide a 'crucial service' for everyoneLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Miss Rusty: I was promoted one day, suspended over racy novel the next - Daily Telegraph, Thursday January 13, 2011
English teacher Leonora Rustamova was promoted just the day before her suspension over a risqué novel that she had written to encourage problem pupils to read, a tribunal has heard.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Librarians: 'We do so much more than shelve books and say shhh' - The Guardian, Tuesday January 11, 2011
The Tories clearly don't know how much libraries do. Cuts will threaten the very social bonds they claim to want to promoteLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here