The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research

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Working with a high-quality book in depth in English lessons will inevitably provoke natural stopping points and inspire rich writing opportunities. Following sessions in which reading has been the focus of the teaching, children can deepen their understanding and engagement through artwork, drama and writing. This will include understanding how an author or poet has crafted language to create an affective response in them as readers, and how they might craft their own writing with reader in mind. Adults who read for just 30 minutes a week are 20% more likely to report greater life satisfaction. 30 Successful readers read widely and often; reading engagement supports the development of skilled reading; and reading for pleasure impacts on academic attainment. The upshot? Reading every day can improve your memory –it can help you learn how to store new information and recall memories more effectively. 5. Enjoy Entertainment Help develop classroom provision to raise engagement and attainment in language, vocabulary, reading and writing.

Is the English Subject Leader able to take strong subject knowledge and a passion for English into colleagues’ classrooms to prepare for and implement sustainable change, evaluating the impact on teachers and children?While reading a novel, the disclosure is pretty slow, and your mind is forced to predict or make guesses. Upon disclosure, you get to connect the dots. It’s fun to make your brain smarter and enhance your analytical skills.

Prioritise the selection of a range of quality texts before decorating or theming the classroom book corner. My teachers are bursting with enthusiasm and creatively which they’ve passed on to the children and other teachers” Headteacher, Power of Reading School A barrier to reading is the children’s enjoyment’. This message was first put across to us before we started by the Power of Reading team as a reason to adopt the programme. Now I can reflect on how powerful this quote is, as the differences I have seen from this year to last are as a direct result of every child’s enjoyment of the texts we have read. We have even had reluctant children going out and buying the sequels (or books by the same author) the day after we have finished the first texts; this really shows the power of reading. Sample Curriculum Maps to help schools develop a text-based English curriculum across the whole school. Please note Power of Reading in the Early Years is now known as Closing the Vocabulary Gap in the Early YearsIn fact, one study discovered that 69% of employers are looking to hire people with "soft" skills, such as effective communication. In today's day and age when all the information you could ever want is at your fingertips at all points in time, it's hard to really develop focus. One solution to this issue is reading!

McGrane et al. (2017) Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS): National Report for England p. 102] ↩ Having books in the home is associated with both reading enjoyment and confidence. Of children who report having fewer than 10 books in their homes, 42% say they do not like reading and only 32% say they are 'very confident' readers. For children who report having over 200 books at home, only 12% say they do not like reading and 73% consider themselves 'very confident' readers. 8 Another one of the benefits of reading books is that they can improve our ability to empathize with others. And empathy has many benefits – it can reduce stress , improve our relationships, and inform our moral compasses. Implementing the guidance in practice requires leaders and teachers to have a depth of subject knowledge. Evaluation from across our research programmes shows how essential a planned programme of CPD is for teachers, which covers the full spectrum of reading and writing and the interrelationship between them, including CPD in the teaching of phonics which is specifically mentioned in the report.As with all guidance documents, especially one of this size, there is the potential for missed opportunities or misconceptions, some of which are worth highlighting here: In another study , researchers measured how reading a novel affects our brains. The study's participants read the novel "Pompeii" by Robert Harris, and as tension in the story developed, more areas of the brain were activated. Bottom line, our brains have a "use it or lose it" policy, just like our muscles. In other words, if we don't exercise our minds regularly, our cognitive abilities may decline . However, when we read every day, we can keep them strong and healthy. 3. Improve Your Focus CLPE School Membership gives your whole school access to detailed literacy planning for a wide range of high-quality children’s books, examples of curriculum maps to show how to plan a text based curriculum and accompanying home learning resources. These combined resources provide ideas, inspiration and structure for your literacy curriculum, raising literacy standards and developing a love of reading and writing. Each year our expert teaching team add new plans and regularly update current planning to match statutory requirements giving your whole school a growing resource at an affordable cost.

Studies have shown that those who read for pleasure have higher levels of self-esteem and a greater ability to cope with difficult situations. Reading for pleasure was also associated with better sleeping patterns. 29 CLPE’s Reading Scale outlines the continuum of development in reading and will be invaluable to support discussions and development of subject knowledge within teaching teams exploring the practice and provision which best support your children’s continued progress. Our Meeting the Needs of Early Readers in Key Stage 2 and Teaching Phonics to support Reading and Writing in Key Stage 2 courses provide specific subject knowledge and guidance for supporting older readers at the earlier stages of reading. The Power of Reading puts quality children’s literature at the heart of English learning and enables all the teaching and learning, in English, to be centred around one text either per term or per half term. This allows the children to enjoy reading and be fully immersed into a text. This enables the children to have a deeper understanding of the variety of texts, author’s language, the impact of illustrations and opens the discussion of life experiences. It also supports us in raising engagement and attainment in language, vocabulary, reading and writing. No wonder the US’s National Institute on Aging recommends champions the health benefits of reading daily.

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These areas and approaches have long been recognised by CLPE as transformational to children’s engagement and attainment in reading. Our face-to-face and online training programme including the Power of Reading and our Teaching Reading and Phonics courses explore how to put this guidance into practice, offering planning and resources for teachers to immediately implement learning in the classroom.