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Making Reading Meaningful

Advisory Teaching TeamNET Section, EMB

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Workshop Objectives

• To have a better understanding of the teaching of reading as outlined in the curriculum documents

• To develop an awareness of a variety of strategies/skills in teaching reading

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English Language Curriculum Guide (2004) A29

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Key Learning Area Curriculum Guide (2002) P.93

Reasons for Teaching Reading

Learning to Read Reading to Learn

Develop thinking

skills

Enrich knowledge

Enhance language

proficiency

Broaden life

experience

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Jabberwocky

’Twas brillig and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.

All mimsy were the borogroves

And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll

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Activity 1:

Think Pair Share

What reading skills did you use to make this What reading skills did you use to make this passage meaningful?passage meaningful?

Number yourselvesEach person thinks of ideas1/2 and 3/4, etc. share ideasShare with group member

Cooperative learning technique – Think, Pair, ShareCooperative learning technique – Think, Pair, Share

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• Phonics: wabe, magic ‘e’ lengthens vowel sound

• Analogy: g/imble th/imble; r/aths m/aths

• Directionality: “Did anyone read right to left?”

• High frequency words: the and

• Semantic clues: Word association: brill / ig briliant light

• Reading on: probably used but didn’t help in this text.

• Rerun: again probably used but of minimal help.

• Syntactic clues: able to identify parts of speech, plurals.

• Punctuation: ‘Twas (it was) capitals, full stops

• Text type: poem

Reading strategies and skills

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Basic Reading Strategies• Graphophonic strategies –

letter shapes, sounds and chunking

• Semantic strategies –

contextual clues/ prior knowledge

• Visual clues – picture / diagram support

• Syntactic clues – sentence structures/ word forms/ grammatical knowledge

• Self questioning

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Pair Round Robin

• Each table will have three different tasks which could be used to develop reading skills

• In your group, form pairs and complete the activity in one of the envelopes before passing it on to the next pair at your table

• Complete all three activities

Activity 2:

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Progression from…

Basic Education Curriculum Guide 3B (2002) P.10

Beginner Reader

Emergent Reader

Proficient Reader

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Considerations for Planning Reading Lessons

• Refer to the Curriculum Guide (2004) P.55-57 for relevant skills.

• Plan to teach an appropriate progression of skills for future lessons.

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