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The love of reading non-fiction books

Posted on 15th February 20236th June 2024 in Language and Communication Difficulties, Learning to Read and tagged article, background knowledge, beginner readers, develop vocabulary, love of reading, non-fiction books, non-fiction for the classroom, reading comprehension, reading motivation, reading rope, the baseball study2 Comments

How not to get eaten

All too often, our classroom libraries offer a wonderful selection of fiction but only a limited amount of non-fiction. Why should we ensure that children have access to a wonderful range of non-fiction books? 1. Non-fiction books are fun Firstly, because so many non-fiction books published today are an absolute joy to read. With amazing […]

How to teach using our Dragon Eggs series

Posted on 17th May 202128th May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Decodable Books, Learning to Read, Reading Resources, Synthetic Phonics and tagged catch-up readers, decoding, Dragon Eggs series, reading comprehension, success stories, teaching phonics, the Simple View of Reading, vowel digraphsLeave a Comment

See our Dragon Eggs series in action! A shining example of teaching with our Dragon Eggs Series… Observe how the reader practises decoding, but also encounters new words that develop vocabulary. Note the exemplary teaching: the teacher makes sure new words are explained and that decoding is accurate. This is a great example of the […]