Teach Reading & Writing Magazine 2016

One of the few points about education upon which pretty much everyone involved – parents, teachers, heads, governors, politicians and even (not that they are often asked their opinion) the children themselves – is in agreement, is that teaching young people to read and write is amongst the most important things schools can and should do.

How they should teach young people to read and write, on the other hand, is not the subject of a similar level of consensus – and Teach Reading and Writing is in no way an attempt to force one. Instead, we've gathered together expertise, experience, passion and ideas from a whole range of interested, and interesting, contributors, with inspiration rather than instruction as our aim. We hope you'll pick and choose; debate and discuss; try things out and twist them around... and maybe discover something new that could make a real difference in your own classroom.