Resilient Reader

Reading is given a central role in the curriculum and is given the highest priority. Reading is taught in all of our classes with help from ‘Resilient Reader’, a fictional superhero who holds the ‘power’ of being a successful reader in his hands. Our mission is to give every child the power to become a Resilient Reader. We inspire our children to read through the use of Resilient Reader techniques. Created by Jacob Mitchell who works with us in school, Resilient Reader encourages the children to use the reading power of their left and right hands.

The left hand is used to summarise the text and ensures that the children have not ‘left’ anything out. The children use their left hand to skim the text and find the Who? What? Where? When? and Why? of the text.

Once the children are able to summarise securely they use their right hand to find the answers they need. If they use the right hand the answers will be ‘right’. The right hand is used to scan the text so that the children can find answers, explain, use inference, predict what might happen next and compare elements of the text.