A really useful article full of links to blogs about reading pedagogies including guided, whole class guided and close reading.

Ideas to help you prepare for the key stage 2 reading SAT. Perfect for new teachers and those looking for some quick reminders.

I share my thoughts about the PEE acronym and its usefulness (or not) for answering extended comprehension questions in Key Stage 2.

Want to know more about close reading? This short article tells you more…

Retrieval is a key reading skill whether you’re teaching comprehension through Guided, Close or Whole Class Reading. In this short article we share some quick and easy techniques to help your class retrieve key information from texts. All of the suggestions here are lo-fi and designed to save you time whilst have a clear focus on retrieving and recording key information from texts.

Here at Primary English, not a day goes by without us thinking about a book that we’ve seen or read and imagining the learning opportunities it holds. We are bookworms through and through and like all educators want to inspire a love of reading.

Here at Primary English HQ we’ve been busy assembling some of the spookiest children’s books we know to help you and your class enjoy some ghoulishly good learning this Halloween. We have ghostly Guided Reading Packs, spooky sets of Starting Points and a wicked Whole Class Reading Sequence.

Our director, Rachel, takes you on a walk through guided reading.

Love it or loathe it, guided reading is probably the most well-used strategy for teaching reading in the UK. This popular post collects together a range of ideas to help you plan for meaningful guided reading sessions.

A hugely popular article signposting the suite of Primary English resources to support teaching and learning in reading. Planners, questions and prompts to support all aspects of the Content Domain for reading in KS1 and KS2.

In this article, I take a brief look at supporting children to identify themes in texts.

The National Curriculum asks that children in Year 5 and Year 6 identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing. But what are themes?Themes are not the plot and they are not the genre. Instead, themes are the underlying messages that exist beneath the words written on the page. They are the big ideas that the author is trying to convey to the reader. 

Once upon an ordinary a day an ordinary teacher was looking for an ordinary book to read with her ordinary children during their ordinary guided reading lesson, when..she stumbled across a quite extraordinary book indeed: Once Upon an Ordinary School Day by Colin McNaughton and Satoshi Kitamura.

Thoughts and ideas from the Primary English experts on how to move your guided reading practice from Good to Great.