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...

This blog post is now available at my new blog:  https://www.aidansevers.com/post/questions-to-ask-when-teaching-inference-making If you...

Following on from my blog post entitled ' Research Findings: Are There Different Skills Within Inference? ' this blog post provid...

In her literature review 'Effective Teaching of Inference Skills for Reading' ( https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED501868.pdf ) ...

This is a very different blog post to the sort I normally write; it represents some very hypothetical thinking and the purpose of writing i...

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

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

Inference skills in the new cognitive domains are summarised as: 2d: make inferences from the text / explain and justify inferences with...

If you are short of time but would like to get the gist of this technique, please see my Quick Reference Guide: http://thatboycanteach.blo...