The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research

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Each text has a variety of writing outcomes which allows our children to be exposed to different text types and understand what features they need to include in their own writing. The CPD course is available as a face-to-face or online course. The face-to-face course takes place over four days spread across the school year and is delivered at CLPE’s centre in London. The online course is delivered over eight x two-hour webinars via Zoom. Both the face-to-face and the online training can be commissioned for groups of schools in a local area. Since the onset of civilization, we have grown and developed mentally. Many learned scholars give credit to the erudite tomes written by our predecessors for our knowledge. The importance of reading books is now more than ever since. Not everything is available in digitalized form. McGrane et al. (2017) Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS): National Report for England p. 16] ↩ In supporting older early readers, teachers are still advised to use systematic, synthetic phonics as the prime approach.

All the books we choose have to lend themselves to sustained study in a primary classroom. We need to be able to see where we can offer in depth and real writing experiences, meaningful study of literary styles and rhythms, opportunities for response that is creative and open-ended, all whilst keeping children engaged with the characters and the story as a whole. Non-readers are 28% more likely to report feelings of depression, and about 1.3 million people in the UK say they rarely read because of depression. 27 On the other hand, people who don't exercise their grey matter stand a chance of losing brain power, says the study's primary author, Dr. Robert Freidland.Do all staff have expertise in knowing and understanding the continuum of development for reading and the processes that underpin reading? Draw on expert teachers to support less experienced colleagues so that all children can make progress. 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?

Keeping yourself occupied with reading for about 20 to 30 minutes can be great for your brain. It can help you with better focus and concentration. You may have been doing it wrong for those who still find it difficult to develop focus or concentrate properly 8. Better Writing SkillsNurture all pupils’ love of reading throughout their reading journey. Systematic, synthetic phonics is emphasised throughout as the prime approach to teaching early readers of all ages but ‘phonics is not sufficient on its own.’ There is much to be welcomed in the updated framework, but we also want to ensure that schools and settings interpret this new guidance with a wider view about what we know works in the teaching of reading, particularly at the early stages. 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. 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.

Sitting alongside the training course is the bank of Power of Reading Teaching Resources. This provides:

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Losing yourself in a book is the ultimate relaxation," said Dr. David Lewis, the cognitive neuropsychologist who conducted the study.