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Book Review: Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley

Written by Douglas Wise | 3 May, 2020

If anything, schools’ dependency on technology to see us through lockdown has made literacy even more of a critical issue. Alex Quigley opens his latest offering, Closing the Reading Gap, by stating that reading is the “master skill of school”, a phrase he repeats four times in the introduction, and it is hard to imagine it isn’t all the more so when ‘school’ has essentially been reduced to a computer screen. Yet according to Quigley, reading doesn’t receive the primacy it should in classrooms up and down the country…

➡️ ➡️ Read the full review published in Schools Week here

Cheers –

Doug