Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Sheena Cameron reading programme


Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey
Reading book

Explicit teaching of reading
Decicated reading time-shared reading, guided reading, independent reading

Reading for pleasure
Reading to support writing: full stopis, capital letter
Reading to learn- across curriculum

Stages of reading
-Develop a love of reading
-Oral language and vacab

Getting ready to read
-Deevlopmentally not ready to read-need to develop visual skills, phonological awareness and how the book works

Learning to read
-concepts about print, high frequency words, letter sounds and names, story and focus on meaning

Developing independence as a reader
-becoming a reader (make sense)

Proficient reader
-knows how to decode, has strategies to read

P104 -colour wheels
P49- word lists

Teaching reading
Reading is about vocab and oral language.
Comprehension strategies

Critical thinking
Is it authentic?
Time for talk and really listen to each other
Conversation promps-can download on the site


Cracking the code
Not just phonics but with other skills as well
Phonics-can be time consuming
Chunking-breaking words into syllables/parts
Analogy -recognising similar words Thistle
Teaching rhymes/song/chants

Tricky words from shared reading or guided reading
Grab a base word-prefixes onto the word ‘Success’

Good readers-does it look right? Sound right? Make sense?
Self monitoring cards
Stop and think
Try again, look at the first sound, look at the picture

Modelling: shared, guided, reading to them
Guided: model before they have a go

Immigrant children/culture 

Shared reading
Children can see the texts -we are practicing reading strategies, need to be able to see the texts 
Whole class 
Variety of books 
Read and enjoy 
Lots of time for discussions 
One big book and poem 

Owl moon 
Songs -Stan Walker as a role model 
Kidsnews -Australian-colour wheel levels


Focus 1 (Day 1) Activating prior knowledge 
Predicting 
New Vocab 
Text structure and organisation 
aurthor's purpose 

Phonics-Chunking-Analogy 
twigs
Branch
trunk 


Get the white boards out as much as possible 
Children decode it 
discuss in the group 
Introduce your word 

Focus 2 (Day 2) 
Zooming in 
Looking in detail at words, sentences, decoding and self monitoring 
Using a puppet 
Having the poster on the whiteboard 
Children say 'stop' 
Tick and check to make sure that reading makes sense 
Cover the words to see what word it is as you read 

Focus 3 
comprehension 
dramas 


Thought bubble -what is the character thinking? 
Question- what kind of question does the character have? 
Talking what does the character say? 

3 thoughts after guided reading 
p.160 

Guided reading 
Magenta/Red 10 min 
Independent 10 min 
Proficient 20 min 

 Make time for talk: Green readers:comprehension 
2-3 groups a day- 8 a week 
Grouping 
Limit the learning goals 
Plan generic follow up activities 

1intro 
activate prior knowledge-using the hand, have a think about experiences,  
Hold the book, talk about the book -book walk, looking at the pictures, asking questions 
Don't rush the intro 
go through every page-familiar with the sentence structure and new words? know the meaning? 

2lesson focus Initial sound-first sound of words 
                       high frequency words 
                       punctuation
                       Text spotter (looked) 
3Independent reading (children read the whole book) 
Stop and prompt 
Stop and ask a question 

4 wrap up 
Discussion
if they got stuck on something 
Follow up activities 

Independent activities 
kids practice reading 
reading shared books 
going back and looking for information 
Story map 
Shared reading-explicitly teaching independent activities 

summarising using the charts 
dice activity 
Reading activity modelling book 
Diagrams comaring characters from different books 

copy the sentence and draw the picture 
Book club- powerpoint download (each has a role, chance to talk about it, develop a love of reading) 
Reader's theatre-Tadpoles in the Torrens - great to develop fluency 
Set expectations (reading daily) 
Making connections 
Struggling readers- selecting materials 
Promote books (selling books) 
Whole class independent reading 
Buddy reading 

Student/teacher accountability
monitoring students reading
-using Ipad- film themselves read 

















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