27/02/09 AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 1 AiZ Secondary School Learning Leaders Session 1 Reading

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 2 Agenda Investigate the data Explore your understandings and beliefs about reading What tools can we use in the classroom? Explore the place and tools for focused conversations What makes an effective reader? Record – retain – reflect

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 3 Exploring your understandings of reading Think about your history as a reader. What positive and negative experiences do you remember? What is your greatest challenge in teaching reading? What are the issues with teaching struggling readers? What texts are used with struggling readers in your classroom?

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 4 Independent Reading Importance and benefits of independent reading To practice reading strategies on their own To practice comprehension strategies on their own What material is suitable for independent reading Group 1

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 5 Read Aloud Features of the Read Aloud Opportunities for reading aloud The benefits of reading aloud to students Comprehension Strategies What can we read aloud to our students Group 2

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 6 Shared Reading What is shared reading in a secondary school classroom When to use shared reading The benefits that Shared Reading can bring to the learning opportunities What material is suitable for Shared Reading? Group 3

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 7 Guiding the Reading Looking at guiding the reading in a secondary school classroom Small group instruction Flexible, strategy based grouping Comprehension strategies What materials are suitable for guiding the reading Group 4

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 8 Comprehension Strategies Activating and getting knowledge ready Questions and questioning Thinking aloud Knowing the text structure and features Visualising Summarisation and paraphrasing Building vocabulary Prediction and inferring

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 9 Book Clubs, Literature Circles Activities that can help motivate students To deepen understanding of the reading material Small groups Flexible grouping Suitable literature

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 10 Readers Theatre Great ideas for readers theatre To deepen understanding of the reading material Small groups Flexible grouping Comprehension strategies Suitable literature - let’s have a go Activity

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 11 Focused Conversations Questions Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy Review the handout Assessment and documentation Conferring Anecdotal notes

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 12 Data and Analysis Using the… Standards Progression Points Reading Continuum Teaching Strategies Listen to students read Listen to students talk Observe responses to focus questions Observe responses related to comprehension strategies Discuss learning with students Data and the analysis is to inform the teaching – Reflecting on Vygotsky and Piaget

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 13 Zone of Proximal Development What does it mean to reading in your classroom

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 14 Adding to the filing system Keys to learning Adding and synthesising

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 15 Summarising your learning What have you learnt? What will you take back to share with your staff? What is needed to support your practice?

27/02/09AiZ - Sandra Pizaro 16 What to bring next session Looking at writing OR Looking at reading But still bring Reading samples Running records Writing samples Photocopied or originals No teacher intervention Independent writing