I’ve been working hard at helping Key Stage 3 students in Deptford Green school, a London comprehensive, to develop their reading skills. To that end, I have written a book, The Time Devil, which is set partly in Deptford Green and partly in the National Maritime Museum, whom we are also working with.
I have now also produced some videos which ‘model’ and ‘scaffold’ how to do the Reciprocal Reading process with the script; they are quite brief, and not perfect, but I am hoping they will give the students an idea about what to do. Here they are: