Reading
WEEK 9
Please see below the reading strategy students are encouraged to work on when reading their right fit readers.
As you currently do, please read with your child everyday and encourage them to read to you.
Remember you are encouraged to drop off your child's readers on a Friday and l can have them changed and ready for collection on a Monday.
If you are unable to drop off your child’s readers to get changed, there are number of other options for you.
Our focus for this week is using prior knowledge to connect with the text.
Parents:
Please see below the reading strategy students are encouraged to work on when reading their right fit readers.
As you currently do, please read with your child everyday and encourage them to read to you.
- Encourage children to ‘have a go’ at reading and praise them.
- Talk about who the people are and what happens in the books you read together.
- Encourage them to express opinions about what happens in the story.
- Talk about the letters, sounds, words and interesting features in the things you read.
Remember you are encouraged to drop off your child's readers on a Friday and l can have them changed and ready for collection on a Monday.
If you are unable to drop off your child’s readers to get changed, there are number of other options for you.
- Reading Eggs offers a library of online books. Great for providing a variety of Fiction and Non-Fiction options to your children.
- You can read aloud to your child/ or share the reading with your child, if the text is too hard for them to read and get them to retell the story based on their understanding of what they heard..
- Epic: This website is a digital library for kids offering unlimited access to 40000 of the best children's books. You can select books to read or have books read aloud to your child. https://www.getepic.com/. Please see the access code that was given to your child.
- This is a phonics-based website that offers free pdf books focused on certain phonemic sounds. https://www.speld-sa.org.au/services/phonic-books.html
Our focus for this week is using prior knowledge to connect with the text.
Parents:
- Please read the Parent Pipeline below to support your understanding of this important reading strategy.
| parent_pipeline_use_prior_knowledge_and_context_to_confirm_meaning.pdf |
Star Criteria
What is Prior Knowledge?
Prior knowledge is unique to each reader. It is the sum of all experiences and knowledge they bring to the reading or viewing of a text.
A reader/viewer has opportunities to activate their prior knowledge and make connections before reading:
- I am asking that students self-assess (with their parents help at times if needed) how many stars they think they were working at for each lesson. They might like to draw these at the bottom of their work as a reminder for when they touch base with myself (e.g. if worked at one start, draw one star on their work).
What is Prior Knowledge?
Prior knowledge is unique to each reader. It is the sum of all experiences and knowledge they bring to the reading or viewing of a text.
A reader/viewer has opportunities to activate their prior knowledge and make connections before reading:
- What ideas do I already know about this topic?
- What known vocabulary will help me with this text?
- What do I already know about this text type?
- This part of the text is just like another one I read/viewed.
- This part is just like when I…
- I know more about this topic now. I can add this new information to what I already knew.
- I have changed my mind about what I think on this topic because of the new information I read/viewed. This text reminds me of…
| activating_prior_knowledge.mp4 |
