Putting PIRLS to Use in Classrooms Across the Globe (Hardcover)

This open access book provides teachers with approaches to strengthen reading comprehension instruction based on scientific research and evidence-based didactic principles. In this volume, the Progress in International Reading Study (PIRLS) framework is used to inform teachers about the skills and knowledge that students need to comprehend certain texts. The book gives practical guidance on how a teacher can help students to learn these skills, specifically, when teaching reading to multilingual students.  

Good practices from schools in five participating PIRLS countries―Chile, Chinese Taipei, England, Georgia, and Spain―are shared. A description of the schools’ education in reading comprehension is provided with practical tips and example lessons. These insights into daily reading education in multilingual classrooms across the globe can be an inspiration to teachers all over the world.

Marian Bruggink has a master’s degree in Education and also worked as a primary school teacher. She started working at the Dutch Center for Language Education in 2001. Besides the PIRLS project, she participated in many other language and reading projects. She mainly develops educational guidelines and teaching materials for language education, based on scientific research.

Nicole Swart started working at the Dutch Center for Language Education in 2017 after completing her PhD at the Radboud University on the role of vocabulary in reading comprehension in the upper primary grades. Since then she has participated in various reading comprehension oriented research projects, including PIRLS-2021.