Reading
Developing effective reading skills in learners
On this page you can download reading materials . To watch the video clips showing the implementation of the Principle for reading skills click here. You will find other useful resources sent in to us by teachers here.
The research based principle relating to the development of reading skills is:
Principle 5 Learners need to be taught how to access a greater range of more challenging spoken and written texts, through explicit instruction in comprehension strategies and in the relationship between the written and spoken forms.
In this document are suggestions for activities to do with students to develop their decoding skills and strategies for approaching a text.
Download the reading and decoding guidelines and materials .
Le Dragon Toxique is one of the more challenging reading texts featured in the video clips. The text of the article and link to a You Tube clip can be found in the decoding and reading strategy materials further up this page.
Here you can download a reading strategy checklist to use with the text and other texts.
Hi,
I would just like to let you know that I have used some of your listening and reading resources with both my year 9s and year 12s for part of my PGCE assignment about learning strategies and learner independence. They have been really useful and I will definitely be using this site again. Thank you!
Hello
Thank you, that’s lovely to hear! If you’d like to share with other teachers any brief info on how you used the resources, and the impact they had on learners, we’d be happy to put them on the site – you can email to me at s.j.graham@reading.ac.uk Or if you’d like any further support in using the materials, contact me at the same address
best wishes
Suzanne
Suzanne