1. Notes from Reading Champions Workshop 2016
Embedding Reading: Becoming a Reading School

2. Why read? empathy Empowerment (critical engagement)
Formation of identity
(character forming)
Enjoyment
Overcome difficulty
Knowledge and understanding
Negotiating difference

3. Children should be exposed to texts they do not normally read
Challenging the status quo “If we don’t read widely, we don’t read deeply” Michael Rosen
Children should be exposed to texts they do not normally read

4. Reading: processes, strategies, outcomes. The Text
Knowledge bases
Cognitive processes
Linguistic processes
Reading strategies
(The Magnificent Seven)
Questioning
Summarising
Clarifying
Predicting
Visualising
Noting text
structure
Think aloud
Outcomes
Learner Talk
(Alexander)
Speculating
Reasoning
Justifying
Explaining
Imagining
Analysing
Negotiating
Narrating
general
words
The Text
domain
sentences
practical (cultural)
monitoring
Strategies – use when needed, not hierarchical
Teach strategies – scaffold – internalise to a natural process
Different children will draw on different processes to interpret a text depending on their prior knowledge
Teach for comprehension (comprehension is an outcome)
Learner Talk: what kind of question will I ask? – will provoke different kinds of Learner Talk
Phonic decoding
memory
inference making
What kind of questions will I ask? 4

5. Next steps? http://readinggladiators.org.uk/
Link P4C and PSHCE with reading by buying thought-provoking books that make children think.