What is inferencing?
A reader’s ability to use information from a text and draw on their background knowledge to understand things that are implied rather than explicitly stated.
Teachers can encourage children to make their own inferences with the support of an adult before they engage in planned tasks with their peers. After this support and scaffold has been provided, children should then be encouraged to engage in inference making, independent of an adult.Matthew Courtney
Greenshaw Research School
Research Schools Network
Blog: Pulling out‘The Bricks’: Deconstructing the House of Reading
Alex Reynolds explains how the Reading House can be deconstructed to support successful reading
Blogs
EEF blog: How to use reading as a starting point for learning this year
Caroline Bilton on how Cragside school are putting reading at the heart of their approach to teaching and learning.
Greenshaw Research School
Developing oral language through reading and responding aloud
Matthew Courtney discusses the importance of exposure to oral language to children from an early age.
Improving Literacy in Key Stage 1
Support language, reading, and writing skills for five – seven year olds.