27/02/09 aiz - sandra pizaro 1 aiz secondary school learning leaders session 1 reading
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AiZ Secondary School Learning Leaders
Session 1
Reading
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Agenda
Investigate the dataExplore your understandings and beliefs
about readingWhat tools can we use in the classroom?Explore the place and tools for focused
conversations
What makes an effective reader?Record – retain – reflect
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Exploring your understandings of reading
Think about your history as a reader. What positive and negative experiences do you remember?
What is your greatest challenge in teaching reading?
What are the issues with teaching struggling readers?
What texts are used with struggling readers in your classroom?
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Independent Reading
Importance and benefits of independent reading
To practice reading strategies on their own To practice comprehension strategies on their
own What material is suitable for independent
reading
Group 1
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Read Aloud
Features of the Read AloudOpportunities for reading aloudThe benefits of reading aloud to
studentsComprehension Strategies What can we read aloud to our students
Group 2
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Shared Reading
What is shared reading in a secondary school classroom
When to use shared reading The benefits that Shared Reading can
bring to the learning opportunitiesWhat material is suitable for Shared
Reading?
Group 3
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Guiding the Reading
Looking at guiding the reading in a secondary school classroom
Small group instruction
Flexible, strategy based grouping
Comprehension strategies
What materials are suitable for guiding the reading
Group 4
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Comprehension Strategies
Activating and getting knowledge readyQuestions and questioningThinking aloud Knowing the text structure and featuresVisualisingSummarisation and paraphrasingBuilding vocabularyPrediction and inferring
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Book Clubs, Literature Circles
Activities that can help motivate students
To deepen understanding of the reading material
Small groupsFlexible groupingSuitable literature
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Readers Theatre
Great ideas for readers theatreTo deepen understanding of the reading
materialSmall groupsFlexible groupingComprehension strategies
Suitable literature - let’s have a go
Activity
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Focused Conversations
QuestionsBased on Bloom’s Taxonomy
Review the handout
Assessment and documentationConferring
Anecdotal notes
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Data and Analysis Using the…
Standards Progression Points Reading Continuum Teaching Strategies
Listen to students read Listen to students talk Observe responses to focus questions Observe responses related to comprehension strategies Discuss learning with students
Data and the analysis is to inform the teaching – Reflecting on Vygotsky and Piaget
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Zone of Proximal Development
What does it mean to reading in your classroom
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Adding to the filing system
Keys to learningAdding and synthesising
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Summarising your learning
What have you learnt?
What will you take back to share with your staff?
What is needed to support your practice?
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What to bring next session
Looking at writing OR Looking at reading But still bring
Reading samplesRunning records
Writing samplesPhotocopied or originalsNo teacher intervention Independent writing