Connectors

Connectors is a groundbreaking reciprocal reading series for peer-to-peer learning: an ideal way to make the most of your Pupil Premium for disadvantaged learners.

It will help you to:
• Narrow the attainment gap, named as a key priority by the Department for Education
• Helps you to make guided reading time as effective as possible
• Improve literacy, leadership skills and metacognition
• Spark curiosity and debate
• Improve motivation and behaviour
• Include every learner
• Obtain high-impact benefits for low costs

Children work in small independent groups of up to six, each taking turns to be the leader as they read and debate a book together. Clear prompts show the leader how to focus the discussion and work with their team to predict outcomes, clarify issues, ask questions and evaluate content. This collaborative approach, recommended by the Education Endowment Foundation, develops teamwork as well as speaking, listening, comprehension and evaluation skills. The series contains over 90 non-fiction and fiction titles spanning Years 2 – 6, covering topical issues that inspire curiosity and debate.

Formal classroom trials of Connectors show children’s reading age leaping forward by an average of 9.1 months in just 12 weeks. For more information, take a look at our case studies.

“Consistent positive effects have been found in different countries, across all age groups and across the curriculum.” Evaluation of peer tutoring from the Teaching and Learning Toolkit, Sutton Trust/EEF, July 2012

The Connectors series is structured using book bands, which are detailed below. Click on a colour for more information: