Supporting Children's Reading: A Complete Short Course for Teaching Assistants, Volunteer Helpers and Parents

ISBN-13: 9780415498364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 178 str.

Margaret Hughes;Peter Guppy

Opis

Being able to read is one of the most important skills in life and something we all want our children to achieve for learning and for pleasure. Supporting Children s Reading gives you the understanding you need of the reading process to ensure that children are effectively supported in their reading journeys. This practical programme draws on the authors wealth of experience in delivering this kind of training and is an invaluable point of reference for anyone working with children to improve their reading. With links to downloadable online resources, it provides everything you need to deliver a bespoke training course tailored to meet your particular audience, including:

• succinct and clear explanations of how reading works
• time-saving resources such as photocopiable handouts and professionally designed visual display screens
• advice on helping children to improve both their decoding and comprehension skills
• guidance on strategies for helping a child deal with a problem word.

Supporting Children s Reading is an accessible, ready-to-use resource to support teachers working with teaching assistants, volunteer Reading Buddies and parents, to provide training on how to share books and listen to readers effectively. It will be especially useful for adults working with children who, for whatever reason, need extra support in developing reading skills."

This book will support teachers who are working with teaching assistants (TAs), volunteer ‘Reading Buddies’ and/or parents to provide some training for them on how to share books and listen to readers effectively. It will be especially useful for adults working with children who for whatever reason, need extra support in developing reading skills.

It might be said that ‘Anyone can listen to children read’; but to make the best use of that time and ensure that a child is effectively supported, requires some understanding of the reading process and knowing about strategies for ‘cueing’ and ‘correcting’.

This book sets out a helpful and realistic programme for teachers to use with groups of TAs and parents who are interested in making an impact on children’s reading and helping them to improve both skills of ‘decoding’ and ‘comprehension’. By providing a structured approach, with photocopiable handouts and ‘screens’ this book will provide teachers with a valuable and timesaving resource.

Spis treści

@contents: Selected Contents: Foreword  Introduction  Presenter’s Guide  Workshop 1. Basics of reading: the balance of clues - seen and unseen  Workshop 2. More about clues  Workshop 3. Teaching tips 1-5: phonics backing up meaning  Workshop 4. Teaching tips 6-10: meaning backing up phonics  Workshop 5. Three levels of reading  Workshop 6. Frustration and Independent levels in action  Workshop 7. Instructional level in action  Workshop 8. It’s a team game: teaching assistant and teacher  Appendix: A Reading Observation Sheet  References