Closing the reading gap

Closing the reading gap / Alex Quigley.

"Our students' success will be defined by their ability to read fluently and skilfully. But despite universal acceptance of reading's vital importance, the reading gap in our classroom remains, and it is linked to an array of factors, such as parental wealth, education, book ownership...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quigley, Alex (Author)
Corporate Author: Routledge (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Subjects:
Reading comprehension > Study and teaching.
EDUCATION / General
Reading comprehension > Study and teaching
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Endorsement
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Epigraph
  • 1 Introduction
  • The reading challenge
  • The teacher knowledge gap
  • Closing the reading gap in the classroom and beyond the school gates
  • Notes
  • 2 A history of reading
  • If you know your history ...
  • The rise of the machine that changed the world
  • Children's reading: a literature of their own
  • The death of reading or a brave new world?
  • In short ...
  • Notes
  • 3 A scientific eye on reading
  • Why all the fuss about phonics?
  • Reading fast or reading fluently?
  • All eyes on reading
  • Teachers keeping a close eye on reading
  • Notes
  • 4 Reading comprehension
  • The wonder of windmills
  • Building 'mental models' of what we read
  • The importance of inference making
  • Building bridges and burying the dead
  • Reading with a role and a goal
  • Notes
  • 5 Reading barriers
  • Why Mr Men books may be more difficult than you think
  • Understanding reading difficulty and the 'arduous eight'
  • What should every teacher know about dyslexia?
  • The hidden problem of poor comprehenders
  • Remember those empty bookshelves?
  • The 'simple view' for a complex problem
  • In short ...
  • Notes
  • 6 Reading in the subject disciplines
  • Reading with a subject lens and spying informational text trends
  • How does a geographer read?
  • Tackling textbooks
  • Reading like ...
  • Mathematics
  • History
  • English
  • Modern foreign languages (MFL)
  • Notes
  • 7 Practical strategies for closing the reading gap
  • Practical strategies for ... creating a whole-school reading culture
  • Practical strategies for ... promoting reading for pleasure and purpose
  • Practical strategies for ... effective whole-class reading
  • Practical strategies for ... promoting reading fluency
  • Practical strategies for ... developing strategic readers.
  • Practical strategies for ... promoting quality questioning
  • Practical strategies for ... writing to support reading
  • Practical strategies for ... vocabulary instruction to support reading
  • Notes
  • 8 Next steps
  • The importance of closing the reading gap
  • How do we know we are improving reading?
  • Growing a reading culture and curriculum
  • Whole-school strategies for closing the reading gap
  • Case study 1: reading for pleasure and progress at St Matthew's C of E Primary School
  • an EEF research school based in Birmin
  • Case study 2: reading the St Mary's literary canon at St Mary's Catholic Academy
  • an EEF research school based in Blackpool
  • The power of reading
  • Notes
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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