Between the Lines: developing comprehension day 2

Course content

• This comprehensive, practical and interactive course explores the full range of reading skills. It addresses knowledge-based and skills-based perspectives and proposes pedagogical practices which develop skills in rich and purposeful contexts. The content draws on a two-year research project managed by Just Imagine and funded by the DfE and London School Excellence Fund.  It is informed by work undertaken for Guiding Readers - Layers of Meaning, winner of the UKLA Academic Book of the Year 2017 (Wayne Tennent, David Reedy, Angela Hobsbaum and Nikki Gamble). Areas of focus:

• Understanding comprehension and inference
• Selecting texts and mapping the potential of the text
• The importance of discussion and dialogue
• The most effective evidence-based strategies including reciprocal reading strategies, visualisation, use of graphic organisers, text marking, think aloud,
• authentic questioning and other metacognitive strategies
• Robust vocabulary instruction
• Comprehending fiction, non-fiction and poetry
• Teacher assessment
• Auditing and action planning