Teachers as readers – the teaching superpower!
As we welcome new ECTs to the profession this September, we want to focus on encouraging and nurturing teachers as readers. As a primary school teacher do you ever find yourself asking any of these questions? “Do I REALLY need to read children’s books?” “I know...
The magic of author events for primary schools
The magic of Inspiration I count myself very lucky. I have seen many, many author and illustrator events, from being a teacher organising them at my school, visiting book festivals with my daughter, at Reading Rocks conferences for teachers, taking...
Why using your Pupil Premium Grant Funding to support your Reading for Pleasure strategy is vital
Have times ever felt so tough in your teaching career? The challenges our pupils and families are facing are many, not to mention our internal crisis of underfunding and teachers leaving the profession. We face the cost of living crisis, growing mental health issues...
Teachers as readers – the teaching superpower!
As we welcome new ECTs to the profession this September, we want to focus on encouraging and nurturing teachers as readers. As a primary school teacher do you ever find yourself asking any of these questions? “Do I REALLY need to read children’s books?” “I know...
Escape to the River Sea blog tour
We are delighted at RR HQ to be part of this special blog tour to celebrate the publication of Escape to the River Sea. We know many Reading Rockers are huge fans of Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson and as mega fans of Emma Carroll too, Queen of historical...
5 Years as a Reading Ambassador: A Positive way to spend Pupil Premium Funding
As we approach the launch of our PPG Book service, we are delighted to welcome Sara Leath to the blog to share her experiences as a Reading Ambassador. It’s so interesting to read about this way to use PPG funding to ensure vulnerable pupils can be given the...
Getting the Most from Pupil Premium
In the build up to our Pupil Premium Grant Book Service going live in June, we have been thinking a lot about the best ways schools can invest their Pupil Premium Grant funding to ensure the gap for disadvantaged pupils is closed. Today, we are joined by Angela Smith...
The Pupil Premium Grant and securing strong outcomes for disadvantaged students
In the build up to our Pupil Premium Grant Book Service going live in June, we have been thinking a lot about the best ways schools can invest their Pupil Premium Grant funding to ensure the gap for disadvantaged pupils is closed. Today, we are joined by Nadia...
New website for Reading Rocks!
Well, this is all very exciting isn’t it?! A brand-new website – ta dah! Just over a year ago, in lockdown, I launched the RR Teacher Book Subscription. I can’t tell you the joy it brings me that so many teachers have signed up to this service and enjoyed the books we...
#BadPanda by @SwapnaHaddow & @SheenaDempsey with @FaberChildrens – Blog Tour Post!
Are you ready for a fun, hilarious read full of warmth, giggles and even a whopper panda dump?! Of course you are! So grab yourselves a bamboocino or maybe a chocolate sundae with pizza sprinkles and sit back and enjoy Bad Panda by the fantastic duo that is Swapna and...
Why teaching empathy at a young age is important and how picture books can help – an #EmpathyDay post by author @Karlwheel
We all need a little guidance at times, don’t we? Especially when we’re brand new here; when we’re learning to walk, holding our first spoon, learning how to spell our name… Learning how to do these things is a given for us all - no one would expect a child to know...
Book Review – Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths by @MaisieWrites – reviewed by Reading Rocks Reviewer @AmieC53
This was a book I was eagerly anticipating arriving, having pre-ordered it due to the reviews I had seen on Twitter. I was beyond excited to receive a proof copy and devoured it straightaway. Danny Chung is eleven years old and loves to draw. He finds maths difficult...
The Tindims and the Ten Green Bottles by @thesallygardner & #LydiaCorry with @_ZephyrBooks – blog tour
We are very excited to take part in this blog tour, celebrating the third book in this series - an adventure series for budding ecologists. 'marries an ecological message with a ripping yarn... a perfectly realised new world that intrepid young minds will want to...
The Power of The Written Word – a #WorldBookDay blog by @JosephACoelho
We are utterly delighted on this World Book Day to host a guest blog post by Joseph Coelho, author of one of this year's £1 WBD books, 'Luna Loves World Book Day'. Over the years I have had the pleasure of visiting schools during World Book Day (WBD). Initially as a...
The Ocean Squid Explorers’ Club by @Alex_Bell86 – Blog Tour – reviewed by Reading Rocker @Boofindlay
We are so excited to have Alex Bell's fourth book in this series on the blog today. I'm sure many of you are fans of the series and can't wait to read this next installment. We were so lucky to interview Alex. Here's what we chatted about: Tell us how you came to be...
The #BoyWhoSangWithDragons by @andyjshepherd illustrated by #SaraOgilvie – blog tour Q&A – @piccadillypress
We are very excited today to be part of this brilliant blog tour. There has been a lot of excitement for Andy Shepherd's 5th book in this cracking series, so we invited our followers to suggest some questions for Andy to answer. I'm sure you're going to love this...
#OiAardvark ! – Alphabetty Blog Tour
R is for Racoons – Racoons will sit on Macaroons! It’s so exciting to be on this epic alphabetty blog tour! So, we are up to R – R is for Reading Rocks and this book is a perfect example of what makes reading rock for children. It is full of giggles, fun and...
The StrangeWorlds Travel Agency – blog tour
I’m delighted to be part of the blog tour launch today for this wonderful book. If we ever needed a book to take us to many places with our imagination, now is the time. The StrangeWorlds Travel Agency is a wonderful adventure through beautifully described worlds,...
How to manage your school library:
Despite all of the advances in technology over the past years, nothing can really compare to children learning reading skills from a physical book. Studies have actually found that the tactile and visual proof of reading with paper can help children with their...
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