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Curating a reading curriculum

Jul 21, 2021 | Category: reading

One of the roles of a school is to curate a sequences of encounters which students have a entitlement to experience before they leave. For many students, school may be the only time in their lives whe...

Echo reading: Building a bridge between text and meaning

Jun 22, 2021 | Category: reading

As a student I was one of those kids who was desperate to be picked to read. When we studied Romeo and Juliet I got to read Mercutio, a part, I felt, I was born for. I threw myself into it and felt I...

#reading aloud #Maryanne Wolf #print literacy #split attention effect

Q&A: Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know about Reading

Jun 21, 2020 | Category: reading

If you missed it, here's a link to the presentation I gave in my webinar on Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know about Reading.There were a number of question that I didn't have time to answer duri...

#Reading

Why we need to read aloud

May 27, 2020 | Category: reading

Here is the recording of webinar I gave for #LDeduchat this week on 'Why we need to read aloud'. The prerecorded presentation lasts for about 25 mins with the rest of the time given over to Q&A.If you...

#Reading #following along

Is reading comprehension even a thing?

Oct 05, 2019 | Category: reading

UPDATE: In light of this post on Timothy Shanahan's blog, I am persuaded that reading comprehension is a thing, but the advice below still stands. Most of the schools I visit are unsurprisingly keen t...

Reading aloud might boost students' memories

Dec 07, 2017 | Category: reading

In the latest edition of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest, Bradley Busch writes about a new study which compared the effects on memory of reading in silence to those of reading out...

#memory #production effect #reading aloud

The importance of reading fluency

Apr 03, 2017 | Category: reading

Following on from a recent post on the folly of forcing children to read along as they are being read to, I presented my thoughts on reading fluency and the problems with 'reading along' at researchED...

#researchED

The problem with 'reading along'

Mar 25, 2017 | Category: reading

It has become an unwritten law of teaching that when reading aloud to students, the teacher must ensure students are reading along in their own copy of the text. This is, I contend, a bad idea. To und...

#working memory #Baddeley & Hitch #cognitive load #phonological loop

Reading for betterment

Jan 24, 2017 | Category: reading

About 20 years ago, I read Tolstoy's uber-novel, War and Peace. The perfect set of conditions all came together: I'd just been sent a copy of the book by a friend who was keen that I read it, I was in...

#Frank Furedi #Andy Miller #War and Peace

Do we teach children to love reading? Part 2

Sep 13, 2016 | Category: reading

In my last post I wrote about sociologist, Frank Furedi's views on reading and whether we do a good job of fostering a love of reading in young people. In this post I want to explore his view that rea...

#Michael Rosen #Frank Furedi #Ruth Mishkin