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Title: Teaching Reading through Literature


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Teaching Reading through Literature
  • Different Reading Strategies to use in the
    Classroom
  • By Britney Bruce

2
Reading aloud to children
  • Reading aloud to children has proven to
    positively correlate with their reading
    achievement. There are numerous benefits of
    reading aloud, some include
  • Stimulating and broadening childrens interest in
    quality literature in a variety of genres.
  • Allowing children to experience books that are
    too difficult for them to read independently.
  • Giving children the opportunity to hear excellent
    literature they might never read for themselves,
    such as books with slow beginnings or above their
    reading level.
  • Broadening their background experiences.
  • Introducing children to a wide range of written
    language, which helps in expanding vocabulary.
  • Encouraging reading because it shows adults enjoy
    reading.

3
Read aloud continued
  • It is important for both parents and teachers to
    read aloud to children on a daily basis.
  • Not every parent is going to be able to do so, so
    it is vital for the teacher to make sure they
    include read aloud in their daily agenda.
  • The books or poems be ones that the teacher
    enjoys, appeals to children, range in genre, and
    are sometimes chosen with the class help.
  • Teachers should use picture-walks when reading
    to their class.

4
Reading aloudcomprehension questions
  • A teacher needs to keep in mind two important
    guidelines when asking questions to check
    comprehension.
  • They need to make sure that they avoid asking
    one-word answer questions.
  • They should avoid asking only memory-level
    questions.
  • Who, what, when, where, or why
  • Both of these types of questions require barely
    any thinking and tell you little about the
    students comprehension.

5
Reading aloudActivity
  • Listening-prediction activity
  • Why prediction?
  • Thinking creatively
  • Keep up interest level
  • Whole class
  • None/few have read the story
  • Show cover/title
  • Students make predictions in journal
  • Check throughout
  • Correct
  • Wrong
  • Revise

6
Sustained silent reading(SSR)
  • Set time everyday for students to read silently
    in class.
  • They chose the books
  • Five Finger Model (William Powell)
  • open book near the center to a page with no
    pictures
  • read it to yourself
  • come to a word that you do not know put up one
    finger
  • at the end of the page if you have reached five
    fingers or more the book is too difficult
  • Book reports and comprehension tests are
    considered harmful to this time

7
Guided Silent Reading
  • Student reads on their own, but the teacher
    initiates conversation and probes deeper thinking
    questions. (Activity similar to whole group
    prediction activity.)
  • Structure
  • Pre-Read (discussion/predictions)
  • Guided Reading (asking questions/ keep on task)
  • Post-Reading (discussion/conclusions)

8
Individual oral reading
  • Small group reading with teacher
  • Read silently before
  • Read sections out loud
  • Individual reading with teacher
  • Running records
  • Students progress

9
Cunninghams six guidelines to oral reading
  • Except when assessing, always have a child read a
    book or passage silently before reading it
    orally.
  • Oral reading should be done with a book or
    passage that is fairly easy.
  • Children who are listening should never correct
    another readers mistakes.
  • Ignore errors that do not change meaning.
  • When a reader makes a meaning-changing error,
    wait.
  • If waiting doesnt work, give sustaining
    feedback.

10
Group oral reading
  • Helps involve every student in improving fluency
  • Choral Reading
  • Reading together (or certain parts)
  • works very well with poems or other rhyming works
  • Readers Theater
  • Read piece multiple times
  • get in groups
  • pick a passage
  • assign parts
  • choral read
  • read their part privately
  • present their play to the rest of the class
  • works on reading with expression(radio play)
  • Story Theater
  • similar to readers theater, but more acting
  • mimes/readers (switch)

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Reference
  • Anderson, N.A. (2006). Elementary Childrens
    Literature The Basics for Teachers and Parents
    (2nd ed.). Boston, MassPearson.
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