What is Integrated Group Reading 2 A Summary

What is Integrated Group Reading? (2) A Summary of the Approach for Teachers

The IGR Learning Cycle the Language Model (from the whole to the parts) (5) Consolidation and Recall for the previous book New Material: (1) Storytelling drawings prompt story recall - a game of Go Fish, No Fish (Narrative Familiarisation) Linguistic Level covered the sentence or phrase the story (2 a) Receptive encounter playing Lotto: ‘Listen and Look’ with complex vocabulary (Phonological-Visual Mapping) receptive vocabulary (2 b) Collaborative Reading reading the new story between us words in context (3) Words in More Detail: playing an appropriately-levelled Phonics Game (matched with book level) (4) With the TA [next day] Word Pelmanism graphemes to be blended into words out of context

(5) The Readability Aspect • An integral part of the development of the IGR approach has been the use of whole text standardised assessments which look at both Accuracy and Comprehension • These yield Reading Age and Comprehension Age scores which have allowed for a very close matching of book levels to reading ages in the IGR teaching materials, as well as helping to highlight the interplay of accuracy and comprehension as children learn to read, even in the early stages (see Mapping Standard Measures to the Acquisition of Phonics and Whole Words in Narrative Texts)

step 1: establishing reading accuracy scores (YARC or NARA)

step 2: matching Accuracy Scores to reading levels

step 3: identifying Instructional Level texts (with a 1 in 10 Difficulty Ratio)

(6) The Collaborative Aspect • The collaborative nature of IGR small group methodology results in high levels of attention and engagement-with-task • Children develop good collaborative skills and individual positive attitudes to reading IGR is a holistic, natural way of learning for children (learning to read as a Language Art)

Summary: the 6 Basic Aspects of… The Linguistic Aspect The Story. Specific Aspect The Play Aspect Integrated Group Reading

…IGR Lesson Methodology The Readability Aspect The Learning in Depth Aspect The Collaborative Aspect Integrated Group Reading