It Only Takes 5 Minutes Reading Workshops What
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It Only Takes 5 Minutes – Reading Workshops
What is involved in becoming a reader? Knowledge Attitudes Skills
What is involved in becoming a reader? Attitudes Motivation To be curious and inquisitive Persistence Resilience Willingness to take risks and correct own errors • Confidence – the belief we will learn to read and get better • Recognition of the value of reading and the ability to see books as a sources of pleasure, satisfaction, information and understanding • To be reflective • • •
What is involved in becoming a reader? • • Knowledge • • Active process Ability to develop a range of strategies That the text is the same each time you read it That the marks on the page tell you what to say That language is composed of separable words The words you say represent the words on the page (1 -2 -1 correspondence) That words are made up of letters Writing conventions (left to right & top to bottom) To be able to use ‘book’ language A reliable sight vocabulary The ability to read pictures
What is involved in becoming a reader? Skills • Concentration • Ability to develop and orchestrate a range of strategies • To be able to retell, predict, rerun and selfcorrect • The ability to use their knowledge of the world and books to think what would make sense
Tell Me Grid – discuss images, books, articles – talk around texts will boost comprehension skills and help develop engagement What do you like about the image? Why? Is there anything you dislike about the image? Why? Is there anything about the image Does the image remind you of that puzzled you? Shocked you? any stories you have read, films or Made you wonder? other images you have seen? What connections did you make? If this was an illustration in a book, what do you think might happen in the story? What makes you think this? Questions can be adapted for different text types
Encourage children to justify their thoughts and ideas. Enjoy ‘talking around’ what you read together – if your child truly understands what they read they will be able to relate to events, empathise with characters and enjoy what they read more. What does the word ‘confusion’ mean? What is the man drinking? How do you know? What do you think the man is thinking? Why? Taken from Tuesday by David Wiesner How has David Weisner shown that the man is surprised?
