Research Literacy: Literacy Research

Tom Sherrington@headguruteacher

What are we doing? We’re moving away from Accelerated Reader

o evidence is mixedo too many variables in the delivery o too many students don’t make progress given the time and

resources neededo there are other ways to encourage reading

We’re about to adopt Thinking Readingo It actually teaches reading rather than merely encourage ito we can track progress and evaluate the scheme accuratelyo as a 1:1 scheme, seems to have a better chance of workingo evidence is persuasive if limited