Caroline Bilton

Content Specialist (Literacy) with EEF @EducEndowFoundn. Primary class teacher of 30 years, assistant head and English lead. Reading matters 📖📚

[Caroline Bilton @bilton_c]

Learning opportunities are everywhere! This animation from ⁦@EducEndowFoundn⁩ is to support families see the learning in anything...especially when it’s fish fingers for tea! https://t.co/1aiiG4jmKS

[BBC Culture @BBC_Culture]

"The great thing about reading is that it turns human experience into a kind of object that you can look at and turn over," says @MichaelRosenYes
#TextualHealing

[Seven Stories @7Stories]

This week's #publisherinfocus is @lantanapub who publish inclusive children's books celebrating diversity, social equality & environmental sustainability. They believe all children deserve to see themselves in the books they read & we couldn't agree more. https://t.co/L32kXfZTr5

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

NOW RECRUITING

We're looking for primary schools to join an EEF-funded trial of Flexible Phonics. The project aims to train Reception teachers to optimise and complement their existing phonics teaching.

Find out more: https://t.co/Je0sPxTkL4

[Mathew Tobin @Mat_at_Brookes]

In amending and improving my module on Literature in the Primary School I keep returning to the @EducEndowFoundn Recommendations. I do think this useful poster will go a long way to encourage richer, critical discourses between students' on the links between theory and practice.

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

'Meta-Analysis of Impact of Reading Interventions for Students in the Primary Grades' - review of 33 studies, mean effect size +0.39: https://t.co/jtvTfkchO2
(Via Best Evidence in Brief: https://t.co/YTLG5KCWWT)

[Carrie Cloete @TalkandTeach_CC]

Trust this - it's good advice!

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

Reading opportunities are everywhere. You can make anything a learning
experience for your child, just follow the TRUST ideas to talk about
anything your child enjoys reading: https://t.co/6w25sN4QDJ

Now with translations in Bengali, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi and Urdu.

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

NEW: Supporting reading at home - we have made several of our resources available in Polish, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, and Lithuanian.

Here, for example, is '7 Top Tips to Support Reading at Home' in Bengali.

Find them all here: https://t.co/6w25sN4QDJ

[St Matthew's Research School @StMattResearch]

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[Eileen O’Sullivan @MsOSullivanYr3]

Love these! Reading is a gift that we give to our children 📚 @clpe1

[Seven Stories @7Stories]

We love to see children enjoying books & creative activities with their families. This week’s #StoryKitchen book Chapatti Moon by @pippagoodhart has been used to inspire families to make their own chapattis & curry thanks to @thefoodnation. #SomethingtoSmileAbout @BlueStoneConsor

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

"Our ideas and activities are easy to build into your daily routine." The BBC's #TinyHappyPeople has been designed to develop children’s language and communication skills, based on expert advice and evidence.

Find out more here: https://t.co/5mtgS3UsZU

[Tes magazine @tes]

New research from the @OxUniPress finds teachers across primary and secondary are worried about the impact Covid school closures will have on vocabulary development https://t.co/DMhtce6ESG

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

Our final EEF News Alert of the school year was sent to its 36,000+ subscribers today - including this end-of-term message from our chief executive, @BeckyFrancis7.

You can read it here: https://t.co/AuNS23YzRK

Subscribe, free, here: https://t.co/S8HJdNCEoJ

[Newcastle Research School @NcleRSN]

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[Sonia @son1bun]

Guilty as charged! 🥰😳📚😳🥰

[Jellytot @sergeantjulie]

@chemDrK @EducEndowFoundn @bilton_c Just watched this after being sent the link from a reading project I’m part of. Your enthusiasm and passion for reading positively leaps out from the screen @bilton_c ! Thank you so much, can’t wait to share this with colleagues next term 🤩

[Caroline Bilton @bilton_c]

@sergeantjulie @chemDrK @EducEndowFoundn Wow! Thank you so much for that! It means so much to me that you found it useful 😀

[Reading for Pleasure 🧶 @OpenUni_RfP]

Let's widen what counts as reading...

🧶Join the #CircleOfReading and share your #ReadingforPleasure choices beyond fiction!🧶

RT and share! #ReadingTogether @TeresaCremin

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

NEW BLOG: Getting transition right - four practical, evidence-based strategies to support pupils moving from Year 6 to Year 7

EEF's @kirsten_mould - a serving school leader and SENCo - highlights some of the provision her school is putting in place: https://t.co/uc6wDcPrJ4