Staff Meeting - Reading

3:35 - 4:10

Di Gudsell – Reading

“Literacy is the glue that holds our curriculum together”

Visually present words on a whiteboard when you are discussing prior knowledge – what letters or chunks of the word that they already know.

Approached to teaching reading has changed so much over the years. There have been a number of resources that have been re-leveled based on how difficult the text was - this was not in line with any teachers feedback and didn't seem to match students abilities. Round Robin reading was banned at some stage because they didn't think students were making any improvements. 

We need to hear them read aloud so we can understand the strategies they are using/or not to decode words.

SSR was something a student teacher said they were going to be doing for their reading programme - Di couldn't believe that this was the depth of a reading programme in a functioning classroom.

Words and vocab are the key - being able to read, pronounce, and decode words correctly. 

Parts of speech and pro-nouns are important aspects of comprehension.

Understanding short vowels are the key to segmenting/taking apart words when decoding unknown words.