There
are many places on this site where you can find information about reading.
Below are some good starting points.
Teaching
strategies
Teachers talk about their approaches to reading
Boys and Books - a discussion hosted by
James Moloney
Choosing and Using Texts
Teaching
Strategies
Guided
Reading
Supported wide reading
Cloze
Book discussion groups
Book raps
Book share
Conferencing
Dictogloss
DRTA
Interview the author
Readers theatre
Reading aloud
Retelling
Asking questions
Teachers
talk about their approaches to reading
Guided
Reading at Lindisfarne North
This is an account of work in Guided Reading undertaken by Janet
Seymour and Carmel French at Lindisfarne North.
Christine
Topfer - kindergarten
Christine explains a wide range of strategies she uses for reading,
including a number of effective home-school strategies.
Carol
Arnold - prep/1
Carol focuses on two aspects of her reading program — the whole
class reading activity in which she shares a text with the whole class,
and the quiet reading time and readers theatre presentation that follows
this.
Emma
Johnson - grade 2/3
Emma explains the routines she finds helpful when teaching reading
in her program at Bridport Primary School.
Linda
Heerey - grade 3
Linda explains how she provides an opportunity for students to talk
about what they have chosen to read during quiet reading time.
Colette
Chinn - grades 7- 10
Colette describes some of the ways she engages her students in reading
and challenges them to try new and different texts.
Angela
Bird - grade 11
Angela describes the way she sets up her supported wide reading
program and the kinds of responses she asks students to make to their
reading. She also explains how she uses small group novel study at times
in preference to a whole class study.
