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Reading at Key Stage 2| Contexts for teaching reading at Key Stage 2
Introduction
| Reading: during Key Stage 2 pupils read enthusiastically a range of materials and use their knowledge of words, sentences and texts to understand and respond to the meaning. They increase their ability to read challenging and lengthy texts independently. They reflect on the meaning of texts, analysing and discussing them with others. (National Curriculum for English 1999 http://www.nc.uk.net) |
Learning to read through talk: the importance of social learning
| Language provides the most powerful means through which children can extend and refine their thought processes and ways of understanding the world. |
Student teachers may well think that reading is a solitary individual pursuit. However, you can remind them of what they gained through shared talk when exploring What goes on in our heads as we read? (Vygotsky, 1962; Britton, 1992; Speaking and Listening at Key Stage 2 and Beyond)
Texts can teach us how to read them, but that learning can be greatly enhanced through text centred talk (King, 2001). The following key contexts for teaching reading in school depend upon this social interaction:
Student teacher observes tutor with a literature circle |
Student teachers need to know how each of these contexts can help children to develop as readers in ways outlined by What children need to learn/possess to become readers.
They need also to know and understand how they relate to both the National Curriculum for English and the relevant strands in the Primary National Strategy:
- Understanding and interpreting texts;
- Engaging with and responding to texts.
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