Secondary School Reading

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Secondary School Reading
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Agenda

• Investigate the data
• Explore your understandings and beliefs about
  reading
• What tools can we use in the classroom?
• Explore the place and tools for focused
  conversations
• What makes an effective reader?
• Record retain reflect

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Exploring your understandings of reading

• Think about your history as a reader. What
  positive and negative experiences do you
  remember?
• What is your greatest challenge in teaching
  reading?
• What are the issues with teaching struggling
  readers?
• What texts are used with struggling readers in
  your classroom?

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Independent Reading

• Importance and benefits of independent reading
• To practice reading strategies on their own
• To practice comprehension strategies on their own
• What material is suitable for independent reading
• Group 1

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Read Aloud

• Features of the Read Aloud
• Opportunities for reading aloud
• The benefits of reading aloud to students
• Comprehension Strategies
• What can we read aloud to our students
• Group 2

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Shared Reading

• What is shared reading in a secondary school
  classroom
• When to use shared reading
• The benefits that Shared Reading can bring to the
  learning opportunities
• What material is suitable for Shared Reading?
• Group 3

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Guiding the Reading

• Looking at guiding the reading in a secondary
  school classroom
• Small group instruction
• Flexible, strategy based grouping
• Comprehension strategies
• What materials are suitable for guiding the
  reading
• Group 4

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Comprehension Strategies

• Activating and getting knowledge ready
• Questions and questioning
• Thinking aloud
• Knowing the text structure and features
• Visualising
• Summarisation and paraphrasing
• Building vocabulary
• Prediction and inferring

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Book Clubs, Literature Circles

• Activities that can help motivate students
• To deepen understanding of the reading material
• Small groups
• Flexible grouping
• Suitable literature

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Readers Theatre

• Great ideas for readers theatre
• To deepen understanding of the reading material
• Small groups
• Flexible grouping
• Comprehension strategies
• Suitable literature - lets have a go
• Activity

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Focused Conversations

• Questions
• Based on Blooms Taxonomy
• Review the handout
• Assessment and documentation
• Conferring
• Anecdotal notes

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Data and Analysis

• Using the
• Standards
• Progression Points
• Reading Continuum
• Teaching Strategies
• Listen to students read
• Listen to students talk
• Observe responses to focus questions
• Observe responses related to comprehension
  strategies
• Discuss learning with students
• Data and the analysis is to inform the teaching
  Reflecting on Vygotsky and Piaget

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Zone of Proximal Development

• What does it mean to reading in your classroom

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Adding to the filing system

• Keys to learning
• Adding and synthesising

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Summarising your learning

• What have you learnt?
• What will you take back to share with your staff?
• What is needed to support your practice?

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What to bring next session

• Looking at writing OR Looking and more reading
• But still bring
• Reading samples
• Running records
• Writing samples
• Photocopied or originals
• No teacher intervention
• Independent writing