Hot Reading

Hot Reading.


‘Hot Reading’ is really radically different. It is based on the fact that when you ask an intelligent reader to read a passage aloud, he or she will always read the passage through silently before attempting to read it to a listener. Interestingly, more intelligent readers faced with the same task always read it through TWICE before reading it aloud. That is why the delivery of intelligent readers is always so impressive with all of the right emphasis and correct tonal variations. Given this obvious truth, is it not surprising that we require the very poorest readers to use a ‘Cold Reading’ strategy and read passages aloud without the advantage that competent, intelligent readers would use automatically?

Reading is a skill and like any other skill, it responds only to routinely successful practices. To become a good reader, all you need is lots of successful reading experience and this is the problem for those with limited reading skills. The Hot Reading approach makes it possible for even the poorest readers to acquire lots and lots of successful reading practice and the results border on the magical. Within four weeks of starting, your poorest readers will show improved self-confidence and greater reading skills. The fact that they are given the opportunity to read passages through on a computer before reading them aloud to a judgemental adult gives their self-confidence a phenomenal boost and that is what is radically different about this approach. If you use the Hot Reading strategy with your poorest readers every day for one week, you will see the child’s self-confidence growing exponentially. Use it for one term and you will have no ‘poor readers.’

Current theory subjects children with reading difficulties to daily, confidence-destroying, failure-reinforcing reading practices. Hot reading subjects them to daily, confidence-building, success-reinforcing reading practices.

In order to deliver literacy to EVERY child, teachers need the means to do the job and the skills associated with the use of these means. Hot Reading is the means and the skills to use them correctly are called 'professionalism' ie using the resources according to the author's recommendations.




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