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The Daily Reading Lesson
It is important to remember, that in education there are no ‘silver bullets’. Good teaching of reading does not have short cuts, and relying on one skill above all others will lead to imbalance and may lead to a need for intervention later in a child’s reading journey.
Therefore, it is important that school leaders have a defined whole-school plan for how they are going to teach reading, through good pedagogical practice alongside highly effective and well researched resources.
What that plan needs to ensure though, is that teacher workload is taken into account. Traditional guided reading is hard work when you have 24 other children in the classroom and unless there is significant levels of planning, preparation and assessment, it becomes unmanageable.
Bearing all of this in mind, working with independent Reading Consultant, Rachel Clarke from Primary English, Scholastic are developing the ‘Daily Reading Lesson’. We have read the research, we’ve looked at teaching strategies and resources from around the world and we are putting together a model for teaching reading that:- includes ‘real’ books
- is based on proven high-impact strategies
- reduces teacher workload
- brings ‘interventions’ into the classroom.
We will be updating this page with The Daily Reading Lesson during the Spring term, 2022.