Topic: reading


  • Celebrating Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is the most famous writer of all time, widely considered to be the greatest playwright the world has ever seen and a fine poet, too. His plays have been performed, read and studied all over the world for the past 400 years and his work translated into almost… Read More

  • Book Boy Finds Fame

    Dillon Helbig wrote the 81-page Christmas tale, called The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis, in four days over the Christmas holidays. He then decided he wanted to share it with others. So, when he next visited his local library in Boise, Idaho, with his grandmother, he took his journal with him… Read More

  • Teachers Want More Diverse Books

    The finding comes from a survey of 2,270 English teachers by Teacher Tapp for Pearson. Some 80% of secondary teachers and 69% of primary teachers said that the set texts (books that every pupil has to study) should come from a wider range of BAME (black, Asian or minority ethnic)… Read More