BT Literacy Course (Reading)

BT Course - Effective Literacy Practice (Reading)

Reading like a reader (storyteller)
Reading like a writer

Reading strategies

What strategies do you use to read? Do all children have these strategies?

- Sounding out
- Looking for familiarity - act out words that students may not know the meaning to (confused, act confused) so that they have a visual to connect to the word.
- Prior knowledge - What do they already know which will help them to predict what they might be reading.
- Reading on
- Re-reading
- Peer support - Teach strategies to children that may not be reading strategies, but strategies that will help them to read and learn.
- Listening
- Reading out loud
- Inferencing - Show don't tell  (Inferencing activities online - reading and writing).
- I want to feel the water between my toes, the sand on my skin (I want to go to the beach).

What do good readers do?
A lot of the time students do not know what they are reading or why? They are not getting meaning from the text? 

While we are reading we are;
- Decoding
- Read with fluency and accuracy
- Have a method for understanding vocab and context.
- Understand continuous (Sentence level, within a paragraph, between paragraphs).
- Understand non continuous texts (Photographs and captions, diagrams, speech bubbles - What is the assumption we can make from the pictures?).
- How is this piece of text relevant for this child? (Including running records, probe etc).
- Retelling, ask students to retell as they are readings, do not be satisfied with their answer keep asking questions and this will give a better evidence of what the child is actually understanding.

Poetry - How would you teach it?

- Build curiosity and imagination
Pull apart the poem, the moon was but a chin of gold. What is the poet saying? Is the poet talking about a moon?
- Illustrate the poem, how would this poem look like as a picture?
- Teaching metaphors and similes (Language features)
- Text structure
- Language structure, does the main noun being used need to be used? Could this be something else?
- Science - Teaching about the phases of the moon, relate to Matariki, if you can put everything together (coordinates) you can save time.
- Expression, Tone, Voice.
- Punctuation (What does this bring to the text).
- Art/Visualization
- Personification

How do I know what to teach?
- Tests/assessments (Use sometimes)
- Observations (Use often)
- Learning conversations (Use most) - metacognitive (thinking about thinking)