Reading at Key Stage 2

Teaching reading at Key Stage 2
Introduction

Reading is far more than getting information from printed records. It is the active encounter of one mind and one imagination with another (Meek 1982: 7)

Having just completed marking sixty miscue analysis assignments, I was struck by how often this quote appeared in the student teachers’ work. Through the process of analysing their subjects’ miscues, all were able to demonstrate whether that active encounter was realised or not.

Your task and challenge then, is to help student teachers, whose experiences of reading may be rather limited, to recognise what Meek means and to learn how the different contexts for teaching reading will support children in becoming active, creative and critical readers.

You and they will need to be fully cognisant with the National Curriculum for English and the relevant parts of the Primary National Strategy. But the best starting place is Teaching English - An Overview.