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To help parents who now think their child may have a learning difficulty, we’ve put together a guide on how best to support them and what your next steps should be.

We know that your literacy level has a direct impact on the kind of life you will have as an adult.

Performances were filled with social commentary and took great influence from contemporary themes.

Here are 5 screen adaptations (not including Harry Potter) that we consider to be among the best!

I boasted to my dad what an amazing new source of reading I had found, but to my dismay found that he knew all about them…

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder — and mine has all of a sudden become very fond of chance encounters and conversations free of stuttering connection issues.

Any form of literature counts as reading: from a blog post or short story, to a comic or poem.

Don’t forget that this was also the era of the Industrial Revolution. Life had changed significantly for ordinary people in the last half century or so – and rarely for the better.

It is hard to truly appreciate history without an appreciation for the history of ideas.

When you learn about the causes of World War One, you’ll likely be taught the long-term reasons first. But have you heard of “The Scrap of Paper?”

In subjects with obvious narrative associations, like English Literature, the stories themselves can actually be overlooked, in favour of analysis.