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Reading at Key Stage 2

Resources

Resources A and B below can be given to student teachers for them to use directly but it is more valuable if they try to produce their own version of each, especially Resource A. Activating and articulating their own prior knowledge and understanding helps them to recognise how much they do already know in this area!

Contents

  1. Teaching reading at Key Stage 2

    a - Introduction
    b - Principles and practices: institution-based sessions
    c - Principles and practices: school-based training
    d - Helping student teachers to become familiar with a range of children’s literature
    e - What do Key Stage 2 readers need to learn?
    f - What goes on in our heads when we read?

  2. Contexts for teaching reading at Key Stage 2

    a - Introduction
    b - Assessing reading: attitudes, experiences, strategies and skills
    c - Teacher reading with individuals
    d - Teacher reading aloud
    e - Quiet reading
    f - Shared reading

  3. Teaching student teachers to how to use shared reading as a positive teaching strategy

    a - Introducing the activity
    b - Phonics
    c - Non-fiction text
    d - Independent reading activities

  4. Group reading

    a - Guided reading and literature circles
    b - A comparison of guided reading and literature circles

  5. Teaching out of the box: a text-centred approach

  6. Struggling Readers

    a - Teaching
    b - Reading skills

  7. Resources

    a - Resource A: What children need to learn/ possess to become readers
    b - Resource B: Guidelines for the analysis of non fiction texts

  8. Videos

  9. References
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