The Read to Learn (r2L) Project
Read2Learn (r2L) is a project developing instructional materials for teaching reading comprehension within a knowledge-rich curriculum. This is an evolved approach for teaching reading comprehension explicitly and in a way that gets students focused on in-depth text.
To access the materials, create a free account on our new platform called Circle.so
Before you go, check out the following:
Read the r2L Cognitorium blog post
Project Leaders
Dr Nathaniel Swain
I am a Teacher, Instructional Coach, Researcher and Writer. I am passionate about language, literacy and learning, and effective and engaging teaching for all students. I have taught a range of students in Primary and Secondary settings, and I have a blog for teachers called Dr Swain’s Cognitorium. I am a Senior Lecturer in La Trobe’s School of Education, and am part of the SOLAR Lab.
Shane Pearson
I am a Speech-Language Pathologist specialising in literacy difficulties and am passionate about effective whole-school literacy instruction practices. While working in schools and private practice in an intervention capacity, I became aware of the many instructional casualties caused by non-evidence-based literacy teaching. This drove me to develop a freely-available spelling and decoding curriculum. I began work at my current school in Melbourne’s south-east in late 2018 solely to improve spelling results. However, implementing evidence-based spelling instruction has been just the beginning of this school’s journey of aligning teaching to the Science of Reading and Learning.