Research School Network: Five minutes on early reading A new guide and tools to support early reading

Learning to read is an important and usually exciting journey for children. Many children will progress very quickly, while others will find learning to read a harder and slower journey. However, the evidence is clear that just about every single pupil can learn to read effectively.

The choices that teachers make will influence how likely pupils are to succeed with reading. This short guide aims to help teachers understand how reading develops, with an explicit a focus
on early reading. If teachers know more about how reading develops then they can make better choices about the activities used in the classroom. There are many different models of
reading, including the Simple View of Reading, Scarborough’s Reading Rope and the Education Endowment Foundation’s Reading House. Each of these models highlights the different
components of reading and some attempt to show how the different components interact.