Articles tagged with: reading rope

The love of reading non-fiction books

Posted on 15th February 202313th February 2023 in Language and Communication Difficulties, Learning to Read and tagged background knowledge, develop vocabulary, love of reading, non-fiction books, non-fiction for the classroom, reading rope2 Comments

WHY WE SHOULD FOSTER THE LOVE OF READING NON-FICTION BOOKS 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 […]

Teaching the Rope

Posted on 24th January 202324th January 2023 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Disadvantaged Pupils, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, SEN, Synthetic Phonics and tagged alphabetic code, DfE validation, reading rope, science of reading, teach SEND children to readLeave a Comment

Scarborough, H. S. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. In S. Neuman & D. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook for research in early literacy (pp. 97-110). New York: Guilford Press. The Reading Rope was developed by Dr. Hollis Scarborough to provide a framework for understanding the different skills that are necessary […]

How to support children in reading complex texts

Posted on 23rd January 202225th January 2022 in Learning to Read and tagged challenging texts, develop vocabulary, reading rope, skilled readersLeave a Comment

Here at Phonic Books we usually discuss how to help children to learn to decode and become fluent readers. But as The Reading Rope shows (see graphic below) – decoding, or word recognition is only the first part of the story. I like the metaphor describing the impact of teaching systematic phonics: it will get […]