Reading Explorers: A Guided Skills-Based Programme Year 2: A Skills Based Journey

This best-selling series aims to support the teaching and learning of Guided Reading, whether in small groups or as a whole class. Using high quality texts, it aims to engage, excite and enthuse readers and foster within them a genuine love of the written word. It includes a text from a well-known children’s author. It focuses on the teaching and learning of core reading skills, its main aim being to improve the progress and attainment levels in Reading standards for each and every child in your class. The key strands of reading comprehension Reading Explorers: A Skills-Based Journey aims to develop and improve are: 1/ The retrieval of specific information. 2/ Vocabulary: extending a child’s knowledge and understanding of words and authorial intent. 3/ Inference and Deductive Reasoning: the art of understanding text at a deeper level. 4/ Evaluative assessment of text: fiction, non-fiction & poetry. 5/ A Study Skills section that aims to encourage independent reading, including how to use a dictionary, glossary and thesaurus. Each book contains 36 detailed lesson plans and differentiated texts to ensure your Guided Reading lessons are accessible to all. This series is also supported by high quality Guided Reading CPD training.