A balanced reading programme - Wednesday 29th January 2020
Explicit teaching of reading at all levels
Purpose for reading -
For Pleasure, Reading to support writing, Reading to learn
Development of reading stages
Getting ready for reading
Learning to read
Developing independence as a reader
Becoming a proficient coder
Comprehension Strategies - Even 3 years old use comprehension strategies even though we don't say
"you are inferencing"
Oral language- Listen to the kid what they say, really listening to children and encouraging them to elaborate more.
Challenging questions and statements.
Make time for critical thinking during shared reading.
Inferencing
Take proverbs and teach them, its good for them to understanding the meaning not literally
Decoding - Cracking the code
Use phonics. Chunking, Analogy-
Do rhyming from the base word
Use prefixes and suffixes and make as many words you can make in 1 mins.
The Gradual Release of Responsibility Model
SharedReading - Show how to read loud , also think aloud - strategies
Guided reading - Teacher can decode to take the pressure off
Independent Reading - Teacher can start the first page to get the kids get into it and then they can do it on own.
Why do you read to students?
Get them interested , getting them engage
Show them , expose them different genres - see which one interests them
How to read with expression
Expose them to new ideas
Weblinks to support reading to students - online resources
Go to on to The literacy Place - reading book - rook resources
Shared reading is important as what you model them then the guided reading becomes easy and children can apply that.
Shared reading does not have to be a big book for older kids, there is heaps of other books that children can see the text .
Poems are good for figurative language
Can use songs - check out the video clip before using
Section of a book
Check Shared reading links -
Guided reading - lot of time for discussion
Kids News an Australian website for guided reading, shared reading
There are texts on TKI online which can be used.
Shared reading
Day 1
Introducing the Vocabulary
Get the children isn a group and ask them to
Decode new words - Discuss the meaning - Predict what the text might be
Then ask them to add one more prediction - use white board for shared activity.
Day 2
Zooming in
Using a puppet make mistakes while reading. Children check it looks right, sounds right and make sense.
Looking in detail at the words, sentences, decoding and self monitoring.prefixes, suffixes
Day 3
Zooming out
Comprehension strategies - speech bubbles for thinking, what are they gonna say
Drama helps to improve comprehension for older kids. Once they know the activity , they can go and do it independently as a follow up activity.
Hot seating - A student takes on the role of one of the characters. The other student ask question.
Prior Knowledge activity
Guided Reading
It's not about finishing the text at higher level. Make time to talk about comprehension.
In general we have to read the book before teaching.
Planning and assessing the progress
Flexible approach to grouping - 4/5 groups are achievable.
Limit the number of learning goals.
Quality over quantity
Link shared, guided and independent
Plan generic follow - up activity.
Round Robin is not recommended in guided reading as kids are not focused. Kids read silently , teacher can tap a child and he can read it loud so that you can hear them.
Use colour code post it - for eg pink for tricky words. Blue for providing evidence , clues etc...
Independent Activities
Activities need to be creative, deepen their understanding.
Limit worksheets
Plan generic activities that can be used a number of times in diff contexts.
Use shared reading and guided reading to introduce and practise reading activities.
Explicit modelling how to do a activity
Book club - student read individually and then work collaboratively.
Reciprocal reading.
Reader's Theatre - provides repeated reading practice, develops reading mileage, can teach to read with expression, need to read it together - Poem - The bike ride by Jill McDougall
Poems are good for Reader's theatre
SSR - Sustained silent reading
R&R - relax & read
DEAR- Drop everything and read
SQUIRT - sustained, quiet, uninterrupted independent reading time
Teacher can work with the target student during SSR time , having a mini lesson.
Take time to find something that a struggling student would like to read
Create a buzz around reading - Provide time foe talk and sharing and recommending books to each other.
