2021 READING

 

TERM 2: Reading Plan

Manaaki Whenua, Manaaki Tangata, Haere Whakamua Care for the land, Care for the people, Go forward

In the first year of school, students begin reading and writing from their first day at school.  Effective teachers build on the literacy knowledge skills and attitudes that students bring to their school learning. Much of the school day revolves around literacy.  In addition to shared and guided reading and writing, teachers support their student’s literacy learning with a rich mix of approaches, including language experience and frequent reading to students.  They provide many opportunities for students to read and write independently, and to engage in purposeful literacy tasks.

Achievement Objectives: Listening, Reading and Viewing Processes and strategies Students will---  acquire and begin to use sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express ideas. Indicators: selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment has an awareness of the connections between oral, written, and visual language uses sources of information (meaning, structure, visual and grapho-phonic information) and prior knowledge to make sense of a range of texts associates sounds with letter clusters as well as with individual letters uses processing and some comprehension strategies with some confidence is developing the ability to think critically about texts begins to monitor, self-evaluate, and describe progress. ORAL LANGUAGE: Focused teaching and many opportunities to engage in talk help students ‘ oral vocabularies to keep expanding rapidly.  Students enjoy identifying and using new words, phrases, and language patterns that they discover in the books and poems they hear or read.  They are constantly refining their ability to aurally distinguish sounds in spoken words.

As soon as students start school , they begin reading texts at Magenta level. Students progress at different rates, however they need to be at or near yellow level for students that start on the second term of the year. The intention is that students will spend just long enough at each reading level for the teacher to observe and confirm that appropriate processing behaviours are in place.  Students have many opportunities for independent reading to strengthen their reading processing systems.

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Students progress at different rates due to effort and consistent practice both at home and in school.  Great progress is prominent due to regular home support and help. 

Reading aloud helps students learn how to use language to make sense

of the world; it improves their information processing skills, vocabulary,

and comprehension.

Reading aloud targets the skills of audio learners.

Research has shown that teachers who read aloud motivate students to read.