Teaching & assessing reading wk 7 Flashcards
Teaching reading involves?
• Recognising words, sight words, solving unknown words.
- monitoring/checking
What is one way to assess reading?
- running records:
to understand reading development
Plan for future reading episodes
Define reading
• The act of making meaning from text
Print, image, sound, movement, gesture, space.
What is guided reading?
a teacher led, small group activity where each child reads whole text.
Increasingly independent reading ability to:
- Apply reading strategies
• Monitor the precise meaning
Before reading a new text we should?
- Build understanding of the plot before reading.
- Build vocabulary
During reading a new text we should?
- Observe and write strengths and struggles.
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After reading the text we should?
- Use explicit praise related to independence/problem solving/fluency.
what are sight words?
Sight words are the words that appear most frequently in our reading and writing.
What are high frequency words?
Occur often in writing.
The, they, love, because.
What are high utility words?
Words common to that person/community that reflect their
context.
eg Jessica, university, Woonona, picturebook
Generalisations refers to
not rules but generalisations.
No I before E except after c rule.
Fluent reading is
- smooth and connected.
- not fast (can be but not always).
How can you prompt fluency in reading?
Put words together so it sounds like talking. Appeal to oral language experience.
How can we understand what children use and neglect when they read?
running records.
Purpose of a Running Record is to understand more about how children are
using what they know to get to the message
of the text, or in other words, what reading processes they are using.
