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Comprehension

Teaching children to read is a complex process. Turning words on a page into meaning and understanding and with it the desire to read for pleasure is something that takes time, patience and a number of different strategies.

Countless research papers have been written into how to teach children to read, and some have affected national policies, such as the Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading, 2006, which became the underlying framework for teaching reading in England.

In 2018, Castles, Rastle and Nation wrote in Ending the reading wars: Reading acquisition from novice to expert are very clear that “decoding and linguistic comprehension are both necessary, and neither is sufficient alone. A child who can decode print but cannot comprehend is not reading; likewise, regardless of the level of linguistic comprehension, reading cannot happen without decoding.”

• Guided Reading
• Reciprocal Reading
• Repeated Reading / Close Reading
• Shared Reading
• Assessment
• Striving Readers
• Advanced Readers
• Whole Class Reading