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Planning for Active Reading – based on the reader “Hansel and Gretel”
Tai Kok Tsui Catholic Primary School (Hoi Fan Road)
Adviser: Nancy Tse
(Curriculum Development Officer)
Teachers: Adeline Cheung, Joyce Chan
Maria Lau, Jolla Chau
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Starting point
prior experience of teaching readers
just read a part of the story and asked questions, and then read some more
a boring procedure of reading line by line & checking on students’ understanding of the details
difficult to motivate students and get active responses
look for an alternative way to teach a reader
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What we learnt about teaching reading to early readers
1. Comprehension is an active process of constructing meaning Research findings.
2. There are 3 basic components in reading.
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What “Active Reading” means to us
finding out story events & development
making connections to old
knowledge and life experiences
looking for deeper meanings
solving reading problems
responding with imagination and emotion
Active Reading
= Purposeful and enjoyable reading
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How we planned our lessons
1. Setting clear overall learning objectives
2. Dividing story into sections and designing reading and thinking activities
3. Setting assessment criteria
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• Discussing teaching reading strategies, and planning our lessons
• Detailed planning of key questions and an analysis of strategies practiced
• Putting in different types of questions requiring students to visit the 3 components of reading
• In the classroom we would stay alert and listen carefully to student’s responses, be ready to provide the hints and prompts
Planning reading and thinking activities
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Planning reading and thinking activities
• We tried the questions on ourselves
• Some of the inference questions were not easy to answer
• Free-response questions also stimulated a lot of imaginative answers from all of us.
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Highlights of our lessons
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Observations and reflections
• A challenge for teachers to try to teach the reader in this way
• Not done enough on vocabulary building
• Oral prediction may not be enough
• Students should eventually learn to ask questions
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