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title: "Book Review: Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley"
description: A book review of Closing the Reading Gap, by Alex Quigley. Originally published in Schools Week. Free to access.
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# [Book Review: Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/book-review-closing-reading-gap-alex-quigley)

 Written by [Douglas Wise](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/author/wise) | 3 May, 2020

If anything, schools’ dependency on technology to see us through lockdown has made literacy even more of a critical issue. [Alex Quigley](https://twitter.com/HuntingEnglish) opens his latest offering, *Closing the Reading Gap,* by stating that reading is the “master skill of school”, a phrase he repeats four times in the introduction, and it is hard to imagine it isn’t all the more so when ‘school’ has essentially been reduced to a computer screen. Yet according to Quigley, reading doesn’t receive the primacy it should in classrooms up and down the country…

➡️ ➡️ Read the full review published in *Schools Week* [here](https://schoolsweek.co.uk/closing-the-reading-gap/)

Cheers –

Doug

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