Workshop Overview
This hands-on workshop bridges the gap between cognitive science and daily classroom practice. It provides you with practical, high-impact strategies to transform your students into expressive, highly analytical readers.
Over the course of 3 days, you will explore:
Session 1: The Foundations of Reading Comprehension
Delve into how the reading brain works. You will learn how to quickly audit classroom texts to extract and explicitly teach high-impact vocabulary, whilst designing smart entry-point activities that activate pupils’ background knowledge before they even begin reading.
Session 2: Mastery of Reading Fluency
Explore fluency as the vital, missing link to comprehension. This highly practical session focuses on oral expression and pacing. You will master concrete classroom routines—such as echo reading, choral reading, and phrase-cued text tracking—that free up childrens’ working memory so they can focus on meaning.
Session 3: Active Comprehension Strategies & Scaffolding
Learn how to make internal reading paths visible. You will practice scripting live teacher “think-alouds” to model metacognition, refine your reading questions and build smart scaffolds (like graphic organisers and sentence stems) that keep text expectations high for every learner.
Classroom Impact
Every session includes a practical interactive planning segment and a small, actionable classroom “gap task.” You will leave each workshop not with a to-do list, but with some fully planned lessons and activities, ready-to-use templates, and collaborative routines to try out with your class immediately.
Fees:
INR 12,390
(Incl GST)
Date:
14th, 16th and 17th September
Time:
5:00 - 7:30 pm IST
Online
Facilitator:
Chris Whitney
Chris is a highly regarded independent literacy consultant, delivering creative whole-school literacy support and quality CPD nationally and internationally. For thirteen years she was Senior Literacy Consultant for CfBT Education Services, Lincolnshire, following a career as a class teacher and deputy head teacher in Slough, where she led the introduction of the National Literacy Strategy. She was a national KS2 Writing moderator for ten years and became an accredited local consultant for school improvement in 2010.
Chris has authored intervention programmes and curriculum strands for HarperCollins’ Treasure House and Big Cat series, and presented webinars for the National College. A British Film Institute lead practitioner since 2004, she led an award-winning film education programme in Lincolnshire recognised for raising literacy standards. Her international work has taken her to Malaysia, Poland and China, supporting English curriculum development in British schools overseas.