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 can’t be doing with watching it, this is my basic argument:

  1. Too many children will not read independently because they are not fluent decoders.
  2. This is through no fault of their own: there is no correlation between decoding and intelligence.
  3. Reading confers all sorts of intellectual advantages: the more you read the more intelligent you will become
  4. We can overcome some of the disparity between fluent and non-fluent by reading aloud (this won’t address reading fluency, but it will provide non-fluent readers with the cognitive advantages of reading.
  5. Overcoming fluency is a separate issue which to begin to address in the Q&A but have written about here.

The slides I used are available separately here:

(NB. There’s a discrepancy with the final ‘key messages’ slide here and the one displayed in the webinar. This one is correct.)
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