{"id":367,"date":"2021-03-23T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/?p=367"},"modified":"2021-03-23T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:37:40","slug":"reading-group-time-what-is-your-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/2021\/03\/23\/reading-group-time-what-is-your-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Group Time &#8211; What is your focus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When planning your reading group sessions, what is the focus? Reading group sessions which involve the teacher require a chunk of teacher time out of your literacy session. 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This guide also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/2021\/03\/23\/reading-group-time-what-is-your-focus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading Group Time &#8211; What is your focus?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ea-planning-learning-teaching-assessment-and-moderation","category-news","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}