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How to be a Thinking Reader. Curriculum Evening – Thursday 26 th April, 2012 S Connor, E Brooksbank, L Allen. Developing Reading Skills. What skills do children need to develop to be able to read? Decoding Comprehension skills. Developing Reading Skills.
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How to be a Thinking Reader Curriculum Evening – Thursday 26th April, 2012 S Connor, E Brooksbank, L Allen
Developing Reading Skills What skills do children need to develop to be able to read? • Decoding • Comprehension skills.
Developing Reading Skills Develop children’s ability to become thinking readers using: • A metacognitive approach – the thinking process • Listen to that voice in your head! • Teacher models reading skill during a class lesson. • Follow up differentiated activities.
Developing Thinking Readers Four key comprehension skills • Generating questions • Predicting • Summarising • Clarifying
Developing Thinking Readers • Levels of comprehension • Right there! • Think and search! • On your own! • Be a reading detective! • Recognise the different types of questions. • Know and use different strategies to answer the questions.
Developing Thinking Readers • A whole class lesson is used to introduce the reading skill. • Children working in mixed ability pairs, ability group or individually. • Teacher refers to the ‘thinking reader’ wall display to encourage before reading, during reading and after reading strategies. • Children use a variety of fiction and non fiction, seen and unseen texts.
Develop Reading Skills at Home • Genre • Main idea • Sequencing • Literal comprehension • Personal experiences and opinions • Vocabulary extension • Skimming and scanning • Prediction