SharpReading

11/12/2025

Learning doesn’t happen just because we planned for it!

24/11/2025

The end of year busy-ness is in full flight and I was well amongst it at the craft show (Encraftment) on the weekend. I am not one for hoards of people jossling around stalls but it was well worth the effort to see kiwis exhibiting their amazing skills. From clarinet lamps to 'pirate kiwis' there was something for everyone. ... And yes I left with a bag of goodies.

So this is a big thanks to all the people out there in Aoteroa that have spent 1000s of hours making and creating including our local Keruru Books that has just released another stunner - Peka and Koro... https://kererubooks.com/product/peka-and-koro-friends-of-the-forest/

You all make our lives a little richer 😀😀😀

16/10/2024

SharpReading's Comprehension PLD?

Try our first training webinar (FREE) and see if it's right for your school! Hi, We have been preparing to register SharpReading with the Ministry of…

23/09/2024

I still think the best praise that our approach can get would be when teachers see a change in their students...

"I’ve begun reading with my year 7s, and I have already seen an improvement in their confidence in answering questions and predicting what happens in the story. I think it’s the first time I’ve heard genuine expressions of surprise from students turning a page in an English book!"

PRICELESS

22/09/2024

Holiday Webinar Week

12/09/2024

The northern hemisphere has just started the school year and I got the privilege of travelling to Tianjin Haileybury Elite School just south of Beijing to work with their teachers before the students arrived.
3 days and 4 workshops later and we had all the teachers trained and a support system in place with the use of trained coaches and the online video system.
Such a wonderful experience with a fantastic group of teachers. I look forward to hearing about their progress as their year develops.

29/08/2024

SharpReading's Comprehension PLD?

Try our first training webinar (FREE) and see if it's right for your school! Hi, Last week, we offered a Two Teacher Trial as a way for you and your…

18/06/2024

How about a focus on Comprehension Instruction in Schools?

Structured Literacy seems to be sucking all the oxygen out of reading PD these days!

Don't get me wrong. I am an avid advocate for phonic instruction in the junior school and this extends to having systems in place to support students in the upper school who have slipped through the net and still have decoding deficits.

BUT I also think it is time to implement a similarly rigorous approach to the systematic, explicit teaching of comprehension if we are truly going to rectify our falling literacy standards.
Read more... https://www.sharpreading.com/blog/post/124167/how-about-comprehension-as-a-focus/

Click on the link below for a free preview of our teacher training course in comprehension instruction. This has been 20 years in the making, field-tested with hundreds of teachers in many, many schools internationally.
https://www.sharpreadingonline.com/7729-2/

Click on the following link for our special training offer
https://sharpreading.com/2024-stage-3-special-offer/

Comprehension Instruction starts at a sentence level - developing the muscle memory to extract ideas and put them together to construct the meaning the author intended. Our routine shows you how.

17/04/2024

Comprehension Focus - Getting Group Rotations to work!

Hi, "How about Comprehension as a focus for 2024!"CLICK HERE if you didn't read our original blog on this.CLICK HERE for last week's 'What about…

03/04/2024

Interesting!