Teaching Reading Key Stage 1 The Bellbird Primary
Teaching Reading Key Stage 1 The Bellbird Primary School
Aims To provide an overview of: • the organisation of the reading books in FS and key stage • the approach to teaching reading in key stage 1.
“Understanding reading is not rocket science: it is much harder than that!”
Good language comprehension, poor word recognition + Good word recognition, good language comprehension Word recognition + Poor word recognition, poor language comprehension Good word recognition, poor language comprehension - Language comprehension
The Reading Curriculum includes; • shared reading Independent Reading – easy text, 95%-100% accuracy. Guided Reading – instructional text, 90%-94% accuracy. • guided reading • regular independent reading - individual Shared Reading – a hard text, 80%-89% accuracy - group and paired • home/school reading • hearing books read aloud on a regular basis • selecting their own choice of texts • reading whole texts and on screen • making close links between reading and writing • reading in other subject areas All of these are essential because they offer different opportunities to develop fluent, enthusiastic and critical readers.
Book Bands – Enjoy the journey
All reading should be enjoyable and successful
Connect with your inner Michael Rosen
Articulating the sounds a e i o u ai ee igh oa oo oo ar or ur ow oi air ear er b c d f g h j l m n p qu r s t v w x y z sh ch th th ng ure
Helping struggling readers & pupils need to establish early print concepts (directionality, one-to-one correspondence, concepts of words/ letters) & pupils need to understand how to become independent learners who can problem-solve on text & Teachers encourage this through using a range of prompts and specific praise & pupils need to be given the opportunity to selfcorrect & pupils need to access books that are carefully matched to their level of reading ability
Prompts to support Punctuation • I like the way your voice went up at the comma, showing that there was more coming in the list. • You make your voice sound just like baby bear speaking.
Encouraging self correction • You went back and changed that. What did you notice? • You stopped and then you started reading again from the beginning of the sentence. Did that help?
What is Reading Comprehension? What is reading comprehension? Making meaning from texts
So, what’s it all about? “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ” Edmund Burke
• What are effective readers able to do?
Effective readers can: &Read quickly &Guess difficult words &Look for clues &Predict &Adapt the way they read for the task &Draw on previous knowledge &Pick up on hidden and not so hidden messages &Create mental images 11
End of key stage 1 Expectations • Consider where all children are expected to be in reading at the end of year 2.
Useful Websites • www. oxfordowl. co. uk
Useful Websites • www. lovereading 4 kids. co. uk
Can you help?
English Updates • The Norfolk Children’s book shop – Wednesday 9 th November • James Mayhew – Monday 9 th January • Visits to Sawston library – Spring 2017 • World Book Day - March
Any Questions?
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