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- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Philip Pullman's call to defend libraries resounds around web - The Guardian, Thursday January 27, 2011
Impassioned polemic against closures picked up by thousands of readersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 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 - Fears over teacher shortages following training slump - Daily Telegraph, Friday January 28, 2011
Secondary schools are facing a teaching crisis following a collapse in the number of graduates applying to work in the classroom.NATE vice-chair Simon Gibbons, director of secondary teacher training at Kings College London, said: “People are uncertain about working in the public sector – they are questioning if it is a secure profession.”
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents 'wrongly blamed for speech problems' - BBC, Monday January 31, 2011
Long-term speech and language problems are wrongly being blamed on parents not talking to their children and too much television, research suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children's screen habits revealed - BBC, Tuesday February 1, 2011
UK children watch an average of more than two and a half hours of television a day and spend an hour and 50 minutes online a day, a poll suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Theatre doth protest too little and too slowly - The Guardian, Tuesday February 1, 2011
Playwright Simon Stephens is right – writers should take to the stage and make their voices heard, no matter how ugly it gets, says Lyn Gardner
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading tests for pupils part of Welsh school shake-up - BBC, Thursday February 3, 2011
National reading tests are to be introduced as part of a shake-up to Wales' schools system announced by the education minister.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Patrick Stewart chosen to receive Shakespeare prize - BBC, Thursday February 3, 2011
Sir Patrick Stewart CBE is to receive this year's Pragnell Shakespeare Birthday Prize.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Library users 'become better readers' - BBC, Friday February 4, 2011
Children who use their local public library are twice as likely to be above average readers, a report has said.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The 'conTROversy' over changing pronunciations - Daily Telegraph, Saturday February 5, 2011Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
In a study by the British Library, interim results suggest a third of Britons taking part now adopt the American-style “skedule” over the traditional pronunciation, which has a softer “sh” sound. The research, which is ongoing, is part of a series of projects connected to the British Library’s Evolving English exhibition.
- Joined to Seamus Heaney's Human Chain - The Guardian, Monday February 7, 2011
The winning essay from this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry Shadowing SchemeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - I loved our 'failing' school, flailing teacher realises - The Guardian, Thursday February 10, 2011
You can't beat an inner-city, state school, sixth form – sussed, curious, hungry and bright as pins. Ah, the dappled light on shades of academe as we thrilled to John Donne or Emily Bronte or the Clash. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here