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My Three Wishes for Schools in 2025
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 15/01/2025Scope exists for disciplined innovation in schools. If schools were encouraged to extend conventional approaches to the teaching of early reading, and if this was done in a systematic, rigorous and methodical way, many children would benefit.
Why empathy boosts reading comprehension
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 16/12/2024In this post I invite you to consider ways in which a focus on empathy can mitigate the challenges of social disadvantage and boost reading comprehension.
Reading fluency: Should it be fast or slow?
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 01/11/2024When a child dials their pace of reading up or down to reflect the degree that they are assimilating meaning from the text, their nuanced and flexible response is a strong indicator that their reading fluency and comprehension are in alignment.
Executive functions: To what extent do they support comprehension?
By: Dr Marion Long Published on: 23/08/2024Decades of research point to the importance of self-regulation and metacognitive awareness as predictors of reading comprehension.
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“It’s only an hour that they have with your over the time that you come in over the six weeks and for it to be able to make, for a lot of them, up to a year’s difference in their reading ability is quite amazing really.”
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