It is a local authority training manual for trainers, designed to provide an accessible platform for the training of tutors in paired reading techniques. The resource could also be used to support parental involvement in the development of these skills.

The training model is intended to help involve young people and families in paired reading. Materials include manuals and a video clip showing paired reading in action.

How to use this resource

The embedded enquiry tasks can be shaped to facilitate professional dialogue and support the development of parental engagement strategies. The questions could be supplemented by the challenge questions in HGIOS 4- section 2.5, Family Learning.

The strategies, interventions and examples are shared to support consideration of how practitioners might develop paired reading strategies to address the paired reading in your context and are not intended to be definitive.

You may find the challenge questions below useful to prompt discussion and reflect on current practice related to literacy and closing the poverty related attainment gap.

• Are outcomes for children improving as a result of their participation in family learning?
• How is family learning improving their capacity to learn?
• How well do we enable parents, carers and families to contribute to the life of the school and be involved in school improvement?

Parent leaflet

This leaflet lets parents know why paired reading is a good way of supporting reading, and how they can use the techniques with their child.

PDF file: Paired Reading Partners: Parents' leaflet (1 MB)

Video: Paired Reading in action

This film footage is an excellent example of paired reading in practice. It has clips of tutors reading alongside children, which help illustrate what good paired reading techniques should look like.

Transcript: Paired reading in action (23 KB)

Downloads

PDF file: Scotland Reads: Trainer manual (2.8 MB)

PDF file: Scotland Reads: Tutor manual (2.7 MB)

PowerPoint presentation: Scotland Reads - Training Session 1 (430 KB)

PowerPoint presentation: Scotland Reads - Training Session 2 (378 KB)

PowerPoint presentation: Scotland Reads - Training Session 3 (340 KB)