Reading at Key Stage 2

Teaching Student Teachers How to Use Shared Reading as a Positive Teaching Strategy

Independent reading activities

These tasks generally need to be related to the learning objectives of the shared reading.

You can help student teachers learn how to devise, resource, manage and assess appropriate tasks by:

Providing such tasks for them to do in session with follow up discussion e.g.

• individuals can read their own texts (fiction and non fiction) silently, looking for features relating to the teaching objectives;
• pairs can investigate word derivations;
• pairs can restructure text that has been divided into sentences/paragraphs etc. (see also Darts activities in Gamble, 2007);
• groups can prepare choral reading of poems;
• pairs can look for particular linguistic features in easily accessed materials, such as adjectives on cereal boxes, deciding how and
• why they are used and their desired effect on the reader;
• drama can help explore texts as in Drama at Key Stages 1 & 2 - Resourcing Drama from Literature.

Modelling how this work can be used for the plenary.

Asking them to devise such tasks for use in sessions.