Reading Zone

According to OECD research, reading for
pleasure may provide the most effective way
to level social change, and is in fact a more
important indicator of academic success than a
child’s socio-economic background. (1.)

Why Read?

To find out about things

To read and understand Instructions

For entertainment and leisure

Reading a well-chosen book or text will help to:

improve your reading
widen vocabulary
make a big difference to your spelling and punctuation
stimulate imagination
improve understanding
improve general knowledge
increase confidence in writing
encourage creativity
encourage faster reading (useful in exams)
improve overall literacy
enhances ability to focus & concentrate
helps to accept other cultures or religions

Curriculum for Excellence defines a text:

“a text is the medium through which ideas, experiences, opinions and information can be communicated.” (Literacy Across Learning: Principles and Practice, p4)

Reading is traditionally associated with the printed word on paper, which is the main focus of the reading record but note that you can ‘read’ other types of ‘text’.

These include:

novels, short stories, plays, poems, comics, newspapers and magazines, reference texts, web pages, films, games and TV programmes, text messages, blogs and social networking sites, catalogues and directories, the spoken word, advertisements, promotional leaflets, charts, maps, graphs and timetables, labels, signs and posters, CVs, letters and emails, recipes, manuals and instructions, reports and reviews