Reading

Activities which require children to follow instructions are inherently an indication of comprehension. If you can’t make sense of what you are reading then you can’t successfully complete the activity. Being able to follow instructions is integral to so many … Continued

Emina McLean’s video ‘How to Teach Vocabulary and Why’ has some research based suggestions for teaching vocabulary that many teachers would find interesting. However, I have a couple of additional suggestions based on the memory and learning research: Link to … Continued

  CommonLit is a great resource for teachers and parents. It is an online library of free texts from a range of genres. These texts can be located according to reading difficulty, genre, topics, themes and literary devices (e.g., alliteration, … Continued

An important component of effective writing is having a wide vocabulary so you can choose words that convey the required meaning and to add interest so the text engages readers and sustains their attention. One fun activity to increase students’ … Continued

Toste et al. (2020) have just published a meta-analytic review of 132 research articles (involving over 690,000 participants) investigating the relationship between motivation and reading achievement among students from kindergarten through to the 12th grade (it is a USA study). … Continued