Tag / Reading Content Domains
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That eternal question: how do I get pupils to read more?
What is the most effective way of encouraging pupils in Years 5 and 6 to read more? It is generally agreed (to the point of it almost becoming a truism) that the best…
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How can you enhance reading for meaning skills?
If we ask children to read, understand and answer questions from a passage, that passage should engage their attention, and the teacher’s attention as well.
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Reading non-fiction is as important as reading fiction
How can we grab and keep a young reader’s interest? There is something rather special about non-fiction literature. Non-fiction texts are just as able to grab and keep a young reader’s interest as works…
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Contemporary literature extracts to keep pupils engaged
Support KS2 pupils in maintaining positive attitudes to reading. There are so many incredible books being published every month by authors who are striving to entertain, educate and inspire their readers. How…
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It’s non-fiction November
How can we grab and keep a young reader’s interest? Non-fiction texts are just as able to grab a young reader’s interest as works of fiction.
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Celebrate World Poetry Day with lions in the garden!
Download ‘Lions in the Garden’ for World Poetry Day. You will also get a mixture of short and long question types linked to the reading content domains to try.
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What is a bookworm?
I am the definition of a bookworm – I always have at least one book on the go and a large stack waiting to be read…
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Confident readers / good readers…
It is undeniably true that good readers are normally confident readers. While of course confident readers are invariably good readers. So which one does one seek to boost first?
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The value of being real
Books containing high quality authentic fiction extracts or non-fiction passages. Introduce the skills needed for KS2 SATs and 11+ Reading Comprehension papers.
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What makes success?
Practise the retrieval and recording of information and develop the ability to answer inference, prediction and sequencing questions.
