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Think2Read - Donna Thomson
Reading comprehension specialist & reciprocal learning consultant
Will travel Nationally
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Statement
I am founder of Think2Read – a comprehension and reciprocal learning project that is committed to helping teachers fulfil the reading comprehension, transferable thinking and group learning potential of children of all abilities. I believe passionately that explicit teaching of comprehension strategies and inference skills is central to promoting children’s love of reading and personal learning from the early years upwards. When young children are shown how to ‘understand’ and make personal meaning of language and concepts for themselves – it provides them with a real purpose for reading and the life-long tools for learning. Evidence has shown that this metacognitive approach to teaching reading comprehension helps to develop more motivated, articulate and collaborative readers, thinkers and problem solvers. I began researching into effective ways of developing early comprehension skills and child-led enquiry in 2001. The Think2Read KS1 and 2 Comprehension and TEAM skills programmes have grown organically out of this research and been successfully trialled and evaluated in Devon schools over the last five years.
Areas of work
Researching and developing primary teaching programmes and classroom resources that cover reading comprehension skills, reciprocal learning & group skills, reading comprehension assessment and analysis, Transferable Thinking skills.
Services
Training and school insets for Think2Read comprehension programme (Developing comprehension skills in the early years) and Think2Read TEAM- Building in the Classroom (Developing independent reciprocal reading and enquiry groups)
Region
National
