Reading Practice Intensive

PLANNING A READING PROGRAMME:

Overview

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Pillars of Practice

Designing Reading with the End in Mind

Recap: Grouping Your Learners

Mixed ability (heterogeneous) or levelled (homogenous) groups?

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Mixed ability AND levelled groups = flexible grouping

• Shared Reading
• Reading to Learners
• Paired Reading
• Independent Reading
• Reading for Enjoyment

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Recap: Text Selection for Wider Reading

The importance of readers’ interests, background and

Identity to engagement.

Recap: Guided Reading

PREPARATION

INTRODUCING TEXT

& PURPOSE

OBSERVATION

DISCUSSION

WORD WORK

TEACHING POINTS

CONSOLIDATION & INDEPENDENT FOLLOW UP

REFLECTION

*Link to Guided Reading Framework

Things to think about:

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• Weekly timetable - how much time do you have across a week for reading, writing, other curriculum areas?

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• Inside the designated ‘reading’ time, how much time do you have to spend with reading groups?

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• How much time do your learners have to learn independently? How will they best spend this time?

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• How are you ensuring that all big ticket items are covered?

Designing a Reading Programme

Assessment Capable Learners

Where am I going? How am I going? Where to next?

*Day 2: Developing Assessment Capable Learners

High Quality Independent Activities

Tracking Independent Activities

Listening

Reading

Viewing

The Case for Literacy: English

Speaking

Writing

Presenting

From the Curriculum: Students need to practise making meaning and creating meaning at each level of the curriculum. This need is reflected in the way that the achievement objectives are structured. As they progress, students use their skills to engage with tasks and texts that are increasingly sophisticated and challenging, and they do this in increasing depth.

Curriculum Silos

Teachers as Connectors

Explicitly making links between communication modes:

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• Reading and writing
• Speaking and listening
• Viewing and presenting

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Through specific areas like:

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• Language features (e.g. poetry)
• Decoding
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension

Joining The Other Year Levels

Year 1: Structured Literacy

Year 3: Literacy

Year 6: Reading/Writing

Year 8: Reading/Writing

Year 9: English

Year 13: English

Reading Across the Curriculum

Literacy is the gateway to the rest of the curriculum!

Looking at the Bigger Picture

Integration

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Transference of learning

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Opportunity to teach the whole curriculum

School Curriculum Tracking

Activity: In Break Out Groups

On the Padlet write a response to explain how you integrate different curriculum areas. Remember to include your initials. Then chat in your breakout group.

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3 min Break