Hello all, I know able readers are often the least of people's worries, but I've posted a request for help/advice/information on my blog here https://miscellaneouswitterings.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/supporting-more-able-readers-y2-3/ and if anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful. Please feel free to p...

Just putting this link here (though Debbie has also put it elsewhere). https://miscellaneouswitterings.wordpress.com/learning-to-read-before-spelling-became-standardized/ I think it would be useful to try and change the perception of the history of reading a bit: whole language approaches, viewed ov...

And in the mean time, talk and sing to them as much as you possibly can....

Thank you Anne, that's really interesting, and encouraging. I'm interested in the variety, actually - there are bound to be lots of ways to do it well. I wouldn't have expected a teacher to hear a child read their personal book every day, or every week - it would obviously be impractical - but I wou...

Hello to all the people who are reading and not commenting! Any opinions gratefully received - I do understand that what you do might vary according to the child/cohort concerned. It would be very useful to know, though, if there are generally accepted norms, or whether practice varies a lot. Thank ...

Hello, I'm after some advice from teachers about what is usual when children are well into chapter books for their school reading in Year 2. How much contact would you expect them to have with the teacher about their choice of book and reading? Would you expect the teacher to listen to them read at ...