Reawakening Literature

It identifies a range of opportunities for developing reading skills, and for talking about books. It also suggests ways of developing readers appreciation and understanding of the cultural and social contexts of these classics of world literature. Activities are designed to encourage engagement, strengthen comprehension, and to support the development of more complex skills such as inferential reading. For each activity there is an explanation of the activity with a worked example using one of the Real Reads texts, together with suggestions about how the activity can be extended for the more able. See more