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

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

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 https://youtu.be/qv8VZVP5csA

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

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