Thanks to Alex Fairlamb (@lamb_heart_tea) of HA Secondary Committee for putting together this reading list for anyone teaching history in schools. It will help us learn, talk and think deeply about why and how we are teacher of reading.

Reading is a central part of student learning.  We are ALL teachers of literacy and therefore how we explicitly teach reading and use this to develop our student’s knowledge of the past, is something that many departments are focusing upon.  To support with this, this blog outlines a range of articles, blogs and books that aims to provide answers to ‘what do we need to read about reading?’

General pedagogy

• Closing the Reading Gap, Alex Quigley
• Closing the Vocabulary Gap, Alex Quigley
• Reading reconsidered, Doug Lemov Colleen Driggs and Erica Woolway
• Disciplinary Literacy and Explicit Vocabulary Teaching, Kathrine Mortimore 
• The ResearchEd Guide to Literacy, James Murphy
• The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading, Christopher Such
• Thinking Reading.  What every secondary teacher needs to know about reading, James and Diane Murphy

Specific Secondary History reading

• History and Literacy in Y7, Christine Counsell. history_literacy_y7.pdf (hoddereducation.co.uk)
• Teaching History 111: Reading History, Teaching History 111: Reading History / Historical Association
• Extended reading: Section Guide, Katherine Burn. Extended Reading: Section Guide / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
• Webinar on demand: History teachers as teachers of reading, Rachel Lewin. Webinar on demand: History teachers as teachers of reading / Historical Association
• Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative, Paula Worth. Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
• New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom.  New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
• Literacy in History, National Literacy Trust.  Literacy in history | National Literacy Trust
• Improving literacy, improving history, Lindsay Bruce.  Improving literacy, improving history – Practical Histories
• A Journey from Fractured Knowledge to a Hinterland of Contextual Understanding, Tom Cox and Jake Watts.  A Journey from Fractured Knowledge to a Hinterland of Contextual Understanding – Practical Histories
• From the Silk Roads to Essex: bringing scholarship into the classroom, Tom Pattison. A Journey from Fractured Knowledge to a Hinterland of Contextual Understanding – Practical Histories
• How and why I do whole class reading in my History lessons, Kristian Shanks.  How and why I do ‘whole-class’ reading in my History lessons | by Kristian Shanks | Medium
• The importance of reading, Anne Hooper.  The importance of reading – OBHD (onebighistorydepartment.com)

Specific Primary History reading

• Primary History 56: History and Literacy. Primary History 56: History & Literacy / Historical Association
• Reading into writing, Nuffield Primary History Project. Move Me On 162: Reading / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
• What’s the wisdom… Extended Reading (Primary) Film: What’s the wisdom on… Extended Reading (Primary) / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
• Local history and literacy using written (and other) sources, Jo Barkham. Local history and literacy using written (and other) sources / Historical Association

Fiction texts 

• Historical Fiction List, Historical Association. Historical Fiction list / Secondary / Historical Association (history.org.uk)

Creating a culture of reading

• Reading?  What reading?, Carolyn Massey and Paul Wiggin.  Reading? What reading? / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
• What’s the wisdom on…extended reading. Dr Katharine Burn, Helen Snelson and Christine Counsell  What’s The Wisdom On… Extended Reading / Historical Association (history.org.uk) and Film: What’s the wisdom on… Extended Reading / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
• Making reading routine, Tim Jenner.  Making reading routine / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
• Learning to read, reading to learn: strategies to move students from ‘keen to learn’ to ‘keen to read’, Martin Loy.  Learning to read, reading to learn: strategies to move students from ‘keen to learn’ to ‘keen to read’ / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
• Creating confident readers at A Level, Gary Howells.  Creating confident historical readers at A-level / Historical Association (history.org.uk)

Supporting ITT and ECTs with teaching reading

• Move Me On 162: Reading.  Move Me On 162: Reading / Historical Association (history.org.uk)