Literacy Resources

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with reciprocal reading but it is a well-researched method of teaching reading comprehension.  The researchers Palincsar and Brown developed the idea and their work is very accessible on the internet, including long term studies. Reciprocal reading focuses on four key strageies that are predicting, clarifying, questioning [...]

As a literacy consultant who has been working on supporting boys and their writing for some years now, I am fascinated by Gareth Malone and his 39 boys.  Particularly the programme on Thursday 16th of September because the focus was reading. If you don’t know what this programme is about, Gareth is a choirmaster who [...]