Emma King (Teaching and Learning Lead) at Nightingale Academy, North London outlines how teachers across the school are improving reading comprehension through three different approaches
- Accelerated Reader to engage pupils in reading, help them catch up to their chronological age and create a reading culture
- Reciprocal Reading strategies to develop pupils' active reading skills across all subject areas;
- Targeted reading interventions to support individual pupils with a reading age of 9 and below
There are three videos of Emma explaining these three approaches.
Part 1 - Accelerated Reader
In this video, Emma King (the Teaching and Learning Lead at Nightingale Academy) outlines how the school has successfully embedded Accelerated Reader to develop a positive culture of reading.
Part 2 - Reciprocal Reading
In this video, Emma King outlines how teachers are using Reciprocal Reading strategies to develop pupils’ active reading skills and make them confident and independent readers who can access difficult texts.
Part 3 - Targeted Reading Interventions
In this video, Emma King outlines how the school has created a literacy-needs register for pupils with a reading age of 9 and below, and implemented a range of reading interventions to meet pupils’ needs.
You can also download
- A handy
table summarising the programmes and their impact
- Accelerated
Reader (AR) case studies from the school
- Reading
skills cue cards
- An AR graph
showing impact on reading ages