Angela Ehmer will deliver 'Practical Strategies for Teaching Comprehension' to Teachers' Aides on 22 March 2023
It is vital that students apply before, during and after reading strategies with confidence and independence. As students develop better understandings about what proficient readers do and think, it can be helpful to provide them with supports or scaffolds to prompt for the thinking required.
To assist students to “warm up” for reading, we are happy to provide you with a “Warm Up for reading” …
A new tool is now available for Teachers.
The Reciprocal Teaching Prompt Card assists with the active involvement of students in reading discussion.
Learn more about how to implement the Reciprocal Teaching Prompt Card and access the download.
We know that the more one reads the better at reading one becomes. We also know that reading that is intrinsically motivated produces better outcomes than the same quantity of mandated reading activity. Therefore, finding material that interests and engages students is critical.
A periodic reading interview is one way of gathering information about reading habits, attitudes and interests, which are then used to inform classroom …
Reading wall posters available for download
I wrote a blog last year about the importance of highlighting problem solving activity to assist students to know what proficient readers do and how proficient readers think. Many of you expressed great interest in some wall charts to support this idea and we have, at last, developed some posters to support you and your students.
The poster set comprises …
My recent post, “Round Robin Reading/Guided Reading – Is there a difference?” prompted great interest and many queries. Some of the more frequently asked questions about Guided Reading are outlined below.
Q: What can the students who finish early do whilst waiting for other students to finish?
A: There are no hard and fast rules and we must respond according to our knowledge of …
Refining the practice of guided reading is a priority goal in many of the schools I am working in. Understandings of guided reading vary enormously, as does the instruction around guided reading from classroom to classroom.
What it is . . .
an opportunity for every student to independently problem solve the text or section of the text.
What it isn’t . . .
a group of …
I am relishing the opportunity to do some independent coaching at an outer Brisbane primary school. As part of a whole school approach to improve reading outcomes, I am implementing a strategy with which I have experienced great success over many years of working with harder to teach students.
It has been almost ten years since I first introduced The Reading Wall as part of …
The Bookmark Book is the newest publication by Literacy Solutions to support busy teachers. The book contains 82 reproducible bookmarks which prompt readers to reflect about what has been read, and/or apply word solving strategies. These can be used to support the reading of independently read texts, or to use during guided, collaborative or cooperative reading strategies.
The Bookmark Book is part of the package for …
Assisting Parents and Caregivers to Support Home Reading
Teachers know that parents make a world of difference to children’s literacy development and that support at home is crucial to developing attitudes to reading as well as practising and applying reading skills and knowledge.
As we move into the new year, schools will schedule parent information sessions to provide important insights about routines and procedures, expectations for learning …
Can six Little Secrets make a difference?
What makes for powerful reading instruction? Expert teachers of reading know why and how to plan for reading instruction that gets powerful outcomes for students.
They know what the Six Secrets are and very importantly, how to make them work in a classroom. So what are they? They are:
Explicit, data driven instruction
Differentiated, strategic problem solving with the right amount of …
