Reading to Learn with Melanie Winthrop
Years 3-6
Years 3-6
***Reading to Learn strategies: Some excellent ideas/reminders on how to approach targeted teaching strategies for ' reading to learn' learners.
- Disciplinary reading / subjects
- Success - sharing assessments
- Teaching strategies and skills
- A variety of genre
- Reading related to writing to information - making that link
- Transfer of knowledge often doesn't get taught
- A good sight vocabulary
- Can identify author's purpose
- Thinking critically
Learning the code - the alphabet, punctuation
Making meaning. . . Being deliberate
Thinking critically - what is the author's purpose. . .
What does literacy acquisition mean in yrs 4-6?
Children need to be able to navigate the text, read the headings,
Pull information from a number of texts. . .
How to use something we've read to answer a question
Locate, evaluate and synthesise
Using strategies for a particular purpose
**There's a big difference between a good lesson and an effective lesson
By year 6 children need to have a number of strategies under control - these tools must have a purpose.
Metacognition
5 key strategies for reading to learn - High 5:
*Activating background knowledge
*Questioning
*Analysing text structure - knowing how a text works, using it for a purpose
*Creating mental images
*Summarising
Deliberate acts of teaching
Chn visualise their own text structures . . . Buildings
PACT
The aspects show what the chn have to do to engage with the curriculum
Look at PACT for teaching next steps
Teaching issues -
Empathy
Cultural values, social issues
Relationships . . . .
Summarising: Can they delete irrelevant details, connect major themes (slide is good)
