In this blog post I am going to outline all of the implementations that I have added into my reading sessions this year. This is a way of seeing if what I have implemented has made a difference to my teaching and the outcome of my learners and I will be able to check in against this at the end of the year.
Individual Questions
I have created question cards that are for fiction and non-fiction texts that the students will be given for pre-reading. What this looks like is each student will have a question that they will need to answer during our guided reading session. They will be given 20 minutes prior to our reading session to read the text and think about how they will answer the question in our reading discussions. This will allow each student to share answer and become more confident in sharing.
Reading Article and Specific Questions
After analysing my running records and PAT data from the middle of the year I could see very clearly which questions that the students were struggling with and which types of questions I should focus on unpacking during guided reading sessions. For my reading task boards this year I have continued to have an overall focus each week with an article directly related to the topic, this has generally been AI generated and at a year 6 reading level for the whole class.
From this the students are then given journals at their reading level loosely related to the topic is possible. The article has a response to text task which is where I have focused on ensuring that each week students are exposed to these types of questions:
Literal, Inferring, Vocabulary, Applied Knowledge, Reorganisation, Reaction and Evaluation.
I have done this to make sure that all of the students are exposed to these types of questions regularly so they will be able to understand how to answer them.
Key into Inference
This is something that worked well last year so I have decided to bring it in again this year. We have been working through these every day of the week as a warm up activity which has been working well so far.
Inferencing Images
Again this is another thing that I have introduced to get students to infer meaning through different types of media. This has been a warm up activity too which has been working well.
This is something else that I have created to get students engaged and excited about reading. We have been working on choosing a book to read for enjoyment and setting aside time each day to read this book. Through this the students can complete a novel study around the book they are reading. This is a work in progress and I am trying to make it look more engaging and enjoyable.
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