Re-think Reading! is a comprehensive resource to support the teaching of reading from Year 2 to Year 6 (with optional plans for Year 1). It contains detailed session plans, organised into a sequence of learning based on high quality texts: picture books, short stories, novels, poems and non-fiction.

Why choose Re-think Reading!?

• Teachers can construct bespoke curriculum pathways to suit school contexts, including all combinations of mixed ages.
• Can be used flexibly for whole class teaching, guided group teaching or a combination of teaching contexts. 
• Written around whole texts to broaden children’s experience of literature and provide an authentic reading experience.
• Builds reading skills, strategies and knowledge cumulatively and iteratively through practice in context with increasingly complex texts: ‘Pupils’ knowledge can be increased by wide reading across genres and subjects, by focusing on the knowledge they need to understand specific texts’ (The reading framework, DfE 2023 p.117)
• Wide variety of approaches support young readers to engage with each specific text. Plans are not formulaic. There are common elements (‘Book Introduction’, ‘Strategy Check’, ‘Independent Reading’, ‘Respond to Text’, Pre-reading and Post-session tasks) but the structure of each plan is determined by the reading demands of that text – a ‘real’ reading purpose.
• Fosters rich discussion between children and with teachers as the primary vehicle for exploration of the text: ‘Pupils will become better at each of the assessed aspects of reading when they read, think deeply about, and respond to texts through discussion and in writing.’ (The reading framework, DfE 2023 p.118)
• Independent reading activities integrated into the sequences of learning, enabling children to explore more deeply, practise, and develop responsibility for enquiry into text.
• Additional training and adviser support available.

Our new subscription offers the following:

• 30+ brand new reading plans for Years 2-6, giving teachers even greater choice and flexibility, including texts that represent diverse identities and experiences, ‘classic’ literature, novels, short stories and non-fiction.
• All 77 original plans for Years 1-6.
• Our commitment to ensuring there will always be enough plans based on available texts for full curriculum coverage - we will be periodically writing new plans to replace those on harder to source texts.
• New national curriculum reading objectives coverage charts to support schools in curriculum planning.
• A new Re-think Reading! subscribers area (microsite) to which further support materials will be added over time.