Recently someone contacted me through my blog asking a very important question: I have recently come across your Reading Roles. From 2016 ...

In my blog post Reading Roles PLUS Generic Reading Activity I presented a reading activity which focuses on some of the widely-accepted re...

Reading Roles PLUS is a resource designed to aid children’s metacognition when reading. Metacognition can be defined simply as ‘thinking ...

The Philosopher Reading Role ( click here to find out more about Reading Roles ) is concerned with thinking . To explain more, here is my ...

I’ve been thinking, reading and writing a lot lately about how we teach reading strategies and skills in primary schools. I won’t bore you w...

Reading Roles PLUS  is a resource designed to aid children’s metacognition when reading. Metacognition can be defined simply as ‘thinking ...

This blog post can now be found at: https://www.aidansevers.com/post/whole-class-reading-providing-challenge-for-children-working-at-greate...

This blog post is now available at my new blog:   https://www.aidansevers.com/post/how-to-write-good-comprehension-questions

What Is Reading Roles? The concept of 'Reading Roles' ( resources available on TES resources ) is to assign a well-known jo...

Anna Storey (@StoreyRead), a teacher in the North East, sent me some feedback on her use of the scaffolding inference technique, which you c...

Having spent a term with year 6 on reading fiction (and answering questions based on fiction texts) data analysis pointed firmly towards ...