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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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