What is Reading

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What is Reading?
Reading is making meaning from our world.
Whatever we read
Books, notices, advertisements, Road
signs, recipes,chip packets, web sites or
prescriptions
we interpret in different ways based on our own
experiences, knowledge and ideas and then use it
for our own purposes.
Giving young children a variety of experiences
and talking with them about it, gives them a
great start to making meaning from their world
through reading.
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Stages of Reading Development
Children in these stages will

• Imitate adult reading behaviours
• Retell stories as they pretend to read.

Role play reading-

• Have memorised familiar stories
• Match some written and spoken words
• Realise that words always stay the same
• Beginning to point to words
• Focus on meaning rather than accuracy

Experimental Reading

• Reads slowly,exactly what is on the page rather
  than concentrate on meaning
• With prompting, beginning to use variety of
  strategies to work out unknown words

Early Reading

• Moving beyond sounding out
• Using meaning as main form of reading strategy
• Using own experiences/knowledge to help with
  reading
• Change reading style to suit different text

Transitional Reading
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1. Learning to Read
PREPARE children for reading and use pictures as
our first reading strategy
(Remember making meaning is our aim in reading)
The children can display their knowledge and
experience through commenting on the pictures.
Question and prompt in a way so the children know
what the book is about. TALK This is the cover
of a new book?.Questions??
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Sounds and Sight Words
Reading the story.
Use pictures and knowledge of story with known
sight words and sounds
Guess the words you dont know
Use sounds/picture/experience
Use meaning and structure
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Repetitive text helps the children learn sentence
patterns and structure and common words needed
to know by sight.
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1. Reading On and Rereading
PAUSE AND PROMPT 1
STUCK ON A WORD They ate the buns as
they ???????

• PAUSE (5 seconds)

• Tell the meaning of the word

• how they got there

• Ask to re-read the sentence

• They ate the buns as they .?????

• Ask to re-read the sentence put in blank and read
  on

• They ate the buns as they . home.

• Look at the beginning of the unknown words
  re-read
  the sentence putting
  in the
  beginning sound and read
  on

They ate the buns as they w. home
walked

• Tell the child the word.

• They ate the buns as they walked home

• Reread together

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2Reading On and Rereading
PAUSE AND PROMPT 2
MISTAKE DOESNT
MAKE SENSE
They beetle some hot bread and
some muffins

• PAUSE (5 seconds)

• Ask- Does that make sense?

• Look closely at this word.
• It means

getting something from a shop

• Ask to re-read the sentence put in blank and read
  on

They . some hot bread and some muffins.

• Look at the beginning of the unknown word.Re-read
  the sentence putting in the
  
  beginning sound and read on

They b. some hot bread and some muffins.
bought

• Tell the child the word.

They bought some hot bread and some muffins.
Reread together
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3Reading On and Rereading
PAUSE AND PROMPT 3
THE MISTAKE MAKES SENSE They saw a boy
throwing papers.

• PAUSE (5 seconds)

• When finished the sentence, ask
• Look closely at this word

They saw a boy throwing papers.

• Look at the beginning of the unknown words
  re-read the sentence putting in the beginning
  sound and read on

They saw a boy d.. papers.
delivering

• Tell the child the word.

They saw a boy delivering papers.
Reread together
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Learning to Read- Reading to Learn
Reading isnt just recognising (decoding) and
repeating words .
Even in the first stages of Reading, meaning and
understanding are very important to be able to
work out what the words are saying.
We need to have understanding of the text to
interpret what we have read whether the purpose
be for learning or for entertainment.
BEFORE DURING And AFTER. reading Question
PROBE
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MAKING MEANING
There are many levels of Understanding as well.
Knowledge Comprehension Application
Analysis Synthesis Evaluation
Get Your Facts Right
What Does it Mean?
Use It or Lose It
Breakdown
Creating Something New
Judge and Jury
Higher thinking skills need to be taught
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Questioning
is only 1 of many ways to
promote understanding.
(but the easiest way)
USE lots of different questions Who What
WhereWhen... How.
WHY

• is probably the most important question word.
• It shows the child
• has the knowledge of the story
• can interpret the information
• is using own experiences to make judgments
• can form an opinion.
• AND there is no wrong answer (as long as it makes
  sense)

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What?
Who?
How?
Why?
Predicting
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A few other things

• Retell the story- orally or in pictures

• Draw a character or scene

• Make or bake something mentioned in the book

• Design or invent something that could be used in
  the story

• Put yourself in the characters position act it
  out/dress up

• Make graphs, commercials, posters.
• And 1,000,000 other ways.

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At Gympie South we have a great network of
support in Literacy
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Home Reading
Across all the grades, children take reading
books for Home Reading. They need daily practice
of the strategies that they have learned at
school. Greater progress will be made with daily
practice.
The books, they take home are at a level that
they can Independently read. Make it an
enjoyable experience.
We value the progress the children make in their
reading.
So, at school, Year 1 and 2 are rewarded with
Reading Awards for progressing through the
Coloured Reading Recovery levels for their Home
Reading.
Year 3 are rewarded for the number of nights they
have completed their home reading.
We invite parents to the School Assembly where
our Awards are presented to the children. The
children are proud to receive their award in
front of all the Junior school and in
particular, their parents.
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In a Nutshell
the story using the pictures
and cover, discussing prior experiences. If the
child is stuck, PAUSE / WAIT, dont jump in.
The trickest part is NOT to help too much but
remind or PROMPT children to use the strategies
they have learned and PRAISE them when they do
and say THATS GREAT HOW YOU REREAD THE SENTENCE
TO WORK OUT THAT WORD! It encourages them to do
it again.
PREPARE
PAUSE
PROMPT
PRAISE
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PROBE for understanding and comprehension PRACTIS
E- Practise makes perfect.
PROBE
PRACTISE
PREPARE, PAUSE, PROMPT, PRAISE, PROBE PRACTISE
And your child will become a more independent and
comprehending reader.
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Handouts-

• Developmental stages- What you can do at home

• Listening to Children Read Pamphlet

• When I Get Stuck on a Word poem Internet
  sites

• Prompting During Reading

• 5 Ps- Prepare Pause Prompt Praise Probe Practise

• Copy of this Presentation on CD