About Ruth Miskin

Ruth Miskin is one of the UK's leading authorities on teaching children to read. She has many years' experience as a teacher, headteacher, teacher-trainer and consultant in synthetic phonics, working with primary and secondary schools throughout the UK and with children from all backgrounds.

Over the last ten years, all her time has been devoted to developing a programme called Read Write Inc. Her belief that every child can, and must, learn to read is the heart of this programme.

Ruth is a renowned and popular speaker. Her Read Write Inc. programmes are published by Oxford University Press and used extensively both in the UK and around the world to improve literacy standards. Ruth contributed to the Rose Review, and has been an adviser to the Government on literacy, including Letters and Sounds. She frequently writes in the national press and her work has been widely featured by the BBC and Channel 4.

Ruth says, “When children can’t read there is low self esteem and children get bored. We want them to be reading with confidence, to be able to read quite sophisticated texts at an early age.”

Ruth is an inspiring trainer of phonics and is at the forefront of embedding synthetic phonics in schools. Read Write Inc. fulfils all the guidelines laid down by The Rose Report and the Primary Framework.