A few main points from 'Just reading: the impact of faster pace reading on poorer adolescent readers' (Literacy Journal, May 2019): #reading #literacy #TeamEnglish 1. A fast read through aims to give students an uninterrupted and sustained reading experience.
2. Poorer readers are more likely to be expected to focus on discrete skills, slowing down the reading process 3. However, 'listening to and following a text read aloud by a more capable reader...a less fluent reader can experience autonomy and fluency'.
4. Teachers read the novel every day for around 20 minutes, pausing only if they became aware of comprehension difficulties. 5. Reading was 'positioned as the core activity' not a marginal one. 6. Teachers quickly recapped content of the novel from the day before.
7. Recapping led to prediction as students began to develop strong, textual interpretation because they were able to hold the narrative sharply in focus. 8. Teachers supported students through the use of graphic organisers, such as timelines, mapping etc. 9. 'Just Reading'
.. will support students when they start secondary by embedding the approach as early as possible. 10. 'Just Reading' allows students to make sense of a coherent whole. End. Very impressive RA gains cited.
