Kathy Roe

This blog discusses strategies for implementing whole class guided reading in KS2, emphasizing the importance of balancing this approach with other reading practices to ensure all children develop a love of reading and become proficient readers.

Reading comprehension is our ultimate goal in the teaching of fluency. Understanding texts, reacting to them and being able to read between the lines is essential if we want children to become kee, volitional readers.

Discover recommendations and a unit plan to mark the anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush in Britain.

In this blog, Kathy Roe, HFL’s Reading Fluency Project Lead sheds some light on the what, the how and the why of reading fluency instruction at KS1 and KS2.

Leading up to a special focus on reading fluency and the outcomes of our collaboration with the EEF, Kathy Roe brings shares the current picture for the HfL reading Fluency Project.

Kathy Roe shares some strategies for supporting children with reading in Key Stage 1.

Kathy Roe shares some marvellous text suggestions for use on the KS1 reading Fluency Project.

In this blog, Kathy Roe shares how one school brought the drama of Shakespeare's Macbeth to vivid life - through drama and writing - drawing upon HfL's Detailed English Plans.