Reading in Religious Studies

There are a number of ways that reading skills are employed in Religious Studies at Gateacre. Classroom tasks regularly incorporate a range of reading sources (e.g. information sheets, accounts of religious life or religious stories) which students are asked to engage with in different ways (e.g. comprehension, analysis of impact, identification of key vocabulary). In each classroom we have a display of key words to assist comprehension and in the department area, a display of the religious etymology of some common words and phrases. In the tables of the department area we also present a selection of enrichment texts, updated regularly, that represent a broader range of reading resources. There are fables and origin stories (e.g. Aesop’s), excerpts from novels (e.g. More Than This ), news articles (e.g. Blackburn Rovers Celebrate Eid) and other non-fiction texts (e.g. do-re-mi etymology).