I am currently reading the work of Willingham (2009) Why Don't Students like school? This has made me reflect on how I plan and teach guided reading sessions. I have found that teaching reading skills in sessions that involve texts on new concepts difficult when children have little knowledge of the subject background. This is because a lot of the session involves explaining what specific vocabulary and concepts mean rather than using reading skills. So next term, I have thought about only using texts that either link to the overall topic that children are learning or those which cover knowledge that children already have a good understanding of.