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Reading at Key Stage 2

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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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