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[Reading for Pleasure 🧶 @OpenUni_RfP]

Congratulations @TeresaCremin on being awarded a #CBE in the #NewYearHonours! Across four decades, you've brought researchers, teachers & communities together around a shared belief in the power of reading, writing & creativity. #InspiringWomen #Connection #RfP @OpenUniversity

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This is always such a labour of love! 😍📝

The Writing For Pleasure Centre's FREE 2026 Handbook Of Writing Research.

There have been some fantastic additions this year! 🤩

Please share widely and download now 👇

https://t.co/uOm6M1OVUY

[NWP UK @NWPUK]

Tonight we made a statement about our future on X (Twitter): as clarified, it was not intended to accuse anyone of anything. The post has been removed so that nothing could be taken out of context or misconstrued. We’ll post again when possible. Facebook & Instagram as usual. -SP

[NWP UK @NWPUK]

@TheWritingWeb @Ikennect Maybe this is why mine was searched at the airport when I went to France on a school exchange? Perhaps they thought I was packing dangerous (!) sewing supplies instead of biscuits for my host family? 30 years later I still wonder about this!
Tins now contain stationery & LEGO 🤣

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Norfolk writers, this one’s for you @SainsburyCentre

https://t.co/jGdm7tJ9kN

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#GoAllIn2026

[National Literacy Trust @Literacy_Trust]

Who's ready to #GoAllIn2026 and see how reading in all its forms can unlock more of what you love? As lead delivery partner for the National Year of Reading, we’re calling on you – your communities and schools, businesses, authors and friends - to join us! https://t.co/VOt8eQGiYe

[NWP UK @NWPUK]

“The sky settles down and slowly colour is switched to mute and a smudge of shadow”

We’re loving your writing & feedback from our #writingprompts this December/Advent. ♥️

Mark from our Norwich #writingteachers group shared this on one of our @whatsapp channels, using prompt 8.

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From Advent Prompt 14: Hedgerows. Thanks Mark!

Today’s a wet & windy one for much of the #uk but if you can’t get out there and wander our wintry wilds, why not hop onto the website and take your pick of our prompts? Just tap on the advent calendar on our home page.

[NWP UK @NWPUK]

#winter #advent #wintermood #winterwriting #december #writingprompts #teacherwriter #teachwriting #christmas
#writing #writingforwellbeing #writingteachers #english #englishteachers #december #writingprompts #teacherwriter #teachwriting #christmas #teacher #teachersoftwitter

[NWP UK @NWPUK]

From the senses to #shirleyhughes, we’ve got a plethora of #writingprompts waiting in the wintry wings this December. Whether or not you’ve already caught the first three over the past few days, go and frost yourself with days 1-6 now.

[NWP UK @NWPUK]

Check back for updates all through advent & browse previous collections too. As ever, we start with #words, but feel free to start and finish wherever and however you like. Feel free to like, share & tag us too.

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@TheWritingWeb #writingrocks @TeresaCremin

[Teresa Cremin CBE @TeresaCremin]

Do come and join this @CLSJ_OpenUni Research and Practice Seminar https://t.co/vaOTU7myhR Free and fascinating! #readingforpleasure @OpenUni_RfP @eduHelenHendry

[CLPE @clpe1]

Writing is physical as well as cognitive. Building children’s core strength and fine motor control helps handwriting flow, freeing minds for ideas, stamina and creativity. Find evidence‑informed guidance in CLPE’s free What We Know Works: Writing booklet: https://t.co/MxetPJB59c

[National Literacy Trust @Literacy_Trust]

Don’t miss our friends at @CLPE1’s Power of Reading courses this November and January! 📚

Join their research-based training programme that transforms literacy teaching across all primary years, including EYFS.

Book now to be part of this professional learning experience.

[National Literacy Trust @Literacy_Trust]

Curious what your pupils think about reading, writing, speaking and listening?🤔
Take part in our Annual Literacy Survey for ages 5 - 18 and uncover their attitudes and enjoyment. Every school that takes part gets a free personalised report.

Register now:https://t.co/6arBevvwZ4

[Teresa Cremin CBE @TeresaCremin]

Might you be interested in becoming our new @OpenUni_RfP Marketing and Communication Officer? https://t.co/YFFp9Yl6cb No need to be nr Milton Keynes but come @6+ times a yr.
📚 Great opportunity 📚 Plz RT!! 📚#readingcommunity @kashleyenglish @debbiet99313391 @eduHelenHendry

[#WritingRocks✍️😍☺️ writingrocks.bsky.social @WritingRocks_17]

Already seeing some ‘unintended consequences’ from the DfE’s Writing Framework.

Remember:

✍️ Dictation isn’t writing
✍️ Children in the EYFS and KS1 can write short whole texts and focus at the sentence-level.

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

On phonics and its limits:
History of words, meaning and morphology all matter as well as sound & decoding and comprehension are deeply interrelated in reading. Phonic decoders are not the same as readers.

[NWP UK @NWPUK]

How much do we 🩷 Writers’ notebooks?!* 📕

*Obviously that’s a rhetorical question 😎

[Alan J Wright @alwriting]

Encourage kids to take their writer's notebooks beyond the classroom and allow the writing to flourish. It's not just for school. Research indicates kids who write at home are five times more likely to perform beyond year level expectations. The notebook is the bridge.