A rethink about guided and shared reading
What is realistic? what is manageable?
Explicit teaching of reading at all levels is very important
Explicit acts of teaching crucial
Need times in the day where we explicitly teach reading
Reading across the curriculum - non-fiction, topic books
Phonics and high-frequency words as additional lessons.
Reading for Pleasure is really important
reading to support writing - eg when reading look at punctuation
Develop a love of reading
Developing OL and vocab
NE: getting ready for reading, lots of PA, shared reading,
Learning to read - CAP, HFW, sounds and names, the text makes sense, focus on meaning
Reading is about taking and oral language
Comprehension strategies - all readers work on these, (when decoding can talk about these strategies).
Critical thinking -
What is realistic? what is manageable?
Explicit teaching of reading at all levels is very important
Explicit acts of teaching crucial
Need times in the day where we explicitly teach reading
Reading across the curriculum - non-fiction, topic books
Phonics and high-frequency words as additional lessons.
Reading for Pleasure is really important
reading to support writing - eg when reading look at punctuation
Develop a love of reading
Developing OL and vocab
NE: getting ready for reading, lots of PA, shared reading,
Learning to read - CAP, HFW, sounds and names, the text makes sense, focus on meaning
Reading is about taking and oral language
Comprehension strategies - all readers work on these, (when decoding can talk about these strategies).
Critical thinking -
- time for talk,
- teachers and students really listening to each other, valuing viewpoints, say more, elaborate
- challenging questions and statements.
Who might like this book?
Decode, and understand the word.
Inference is important - so what is this telling us?
Cracking the code:
Phonics - is one skill
Chunking - syllables, parts of words, morphology, suffixes, prefixes,
Analogy - recognizing similar words and parts of words - rhyme - poems, songs, chants, poems, rhyme unknown words when ready
Word families
Good readers - check their reading - looks right(M), sounds right(S), makes sense(V)
Fix up strategies
stop and think
Try again, look at the first sound, look at the picture
A balanced reading programme
Modeled reading (reading to) - teacher - eg storytelling
Shared reading - teacher and class
Guided reading - teacher to class
Independent - child does (Fluency boxes)
Listening comprehension and reading comprehension are closely aligned.
Why do we read to students:
Information
Pleasure
foster imagination
Sharing ideas/talk
Talk is at the heart of a reading programme
Shared Reading:
Teach shared reading regularly
Use a variety of texts
Teach decoding and comprehension strategies
To facilitate talk/discussion
Why?
efficient use of teaching time
efficient use of teaching time
Opportunity to model decoding, comprehension strategies, and critical thinking
exposes all students to a variety of texts
allows students to engage in quality reading discussions
Texts: Anything as long as students can see the text
Big books - fiction and non-fiction (Walker books)
Poems
Songs
picture books projected - can see words
Shared reading sessions:
Focus 1 - book intro
Activate prior know
predicting
new vocab - chose new words that we can explore together, (decode the new word, discuss their meaning, predict what the text may be about). Phonics, chunking, analogy
text structure
authors purpose.
Focus 2 - Zooming in - looking at words sentences, CAP
still involves reading the text
looking in detail at words, sentences, decoding, self-monitoring (x2 for NE)
Can use puppet for strategy
Cover word so they have to guess what it is from the context
Focus 3 - Zooming out - comprehension, thinking critically
comprehension, personal responses, and critical thinking
explicitly model the use of comprehension strategies (inferring - thinking, saying, what questions the character may have).
Drama activities - act it out, a part of the story
hot seating - take on the role of one of the characters, the children ask questions (Greedy Cat, Little red riding hood etc)
Guided reading:
The teacher guides a group
Other students engaged
Guided reading is only one component of a balanced reading program - we don't have to teach everything or everyone
It's not about finishing the text at a higher level. Can do 2 sessions on one text
Make time for talk - higher readers need time to work on comprehension, don't sit and listen to them read.
Quality over quantity.
Planning and assessing progress:
4 or 5 groups - join children up where possible (eg yellow 6/7)
limit learning goals - 1 or 2.
link shared, guided, independent.
Suggested structure for guided reading:
intro - teacher hold book - don't rush the introduction, v impt
lesson focus
activate prior knowledge
predict
new vocab - book walk, find tricky words, reading pictures - stop wait and think in response to teacher's questions. The teacher is doing a synopsis of the story.
tricky concepts/ideas
find hfw in book with alphabet cards, find initial sound, notice punctuation, practice punctuation together. word on sticky - find in book
Independent reading
Students read the text or a check
The teacher listens
read quietly - if I tap you read to me
Not to read in unison or round-robin. (don't get the flow of the book).
Independent Activities:
what can we do:
Read
Zooming in activities - decoding
Zooming out activities
worksheets are not engaging, limit.
retelling - first, next, then
explicitly model how to complete the activity - use a modelling book
Y chart - before, during, after.
Setting up a literacy-rich environment for activities:
Story kits
write HFW on the whiteboard (words on key ring)
Puppets
Magnetic story
iPad stories - sunshine online
revisit browsing box
Independent reading:
Fluency boxes
RTR box from a big book
Role of teacher:
Play an active role - target children
set clear expectations - be explicit about expectations about independent reading
support children to find an appropriate book for level
promote books (bookselling) - the children can do it - why is this good to read
tap and read - check-in
Favourite book this week?
Child can read their story onto Seesaw
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