Emma & Tom's Pgce Podcast

For today's research bite, Emma is in conversation with Danielle Kates from our PGCE Primary programme. Danielle was keen to investigate ways to improve her pupils' reading comprehension, so she carried out a review of literature in order to make recommendations for her placement schools and her own practice.You can download Danielle's summary of her research here, and you can watch the video version of this conversation on our YouTube channel.Thanks to Danielle for joining us to share her research!Danielle's sources were:Blything, L.P., Hardie, A. and Cain, K. (2020) ‘Question Asking During Reading Comprehension Instruction: A Corpus Study of How Question Type Influences the Linguistic Complexity of Primary School Students’ Responses’, Reading research quarterly, 55(3), pp. 443–472. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.279.Estyn (2021), English language and literacy insetting and primary schools. Available at: https://www.estyn.gov.wales/system/files/2022-01/Estyn%20English%20language%20and%20literacy%2