General tips for improving expression 

• Model how the text should be read – using an appropriate tone, pace and volume

• Make the teaching of expression and your use of it explicit

• Provide opportunities for hearing authors reading their own work

• Emphasise that punctuation is intended to help the reader understand where the expression should come

• Encourage pupils to identify the phases in a piece of text

• Let children listen to audio books

• Use a variety of texts to promote different feelings

• Engage in reading theatres so the children have regular opportunities to read aloud

• If a child does not want to read aloud encourage them to sub-vocalise along with the other pupils

• Use paired reading in Key stage 2 and above to improve the flow of the reading – do not let a pupil struggle with decoding as they will lose all sense of what is being read.