The Reading Lesson: Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons (The Reading Lesson series)

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In the classroom, you can also use our fantastic Summarising Sheba collection pictured below. Summarising Sheba provides you with strategies for improving reading skills in your Year 3 and Year 4 children.

Your ideas and lessons can help other teachers! Submit your reading lesson plan or activity to us. Don't forget to include any additional worksheets or documents. Also, we love your photos! Reading Lesson Plans You could begin by assessing your tutee’s current reading level using this 60-Second Reading: Reading Age Assessment . Children are required to read a selection of words out loud from the word mat, and you will need to mark whether they read it correctly or not. From their result, you can calculate their reading age. The resource also allows you to record information from a second assessment, after you’ve had time to tutor the child and help them improve. This is great for showing the child’s parents the improvements that have been made through the reading lessons. The best way to enhance and expand a child’s vocabulary is by getting them to read more. A better vocabulary will vastly improve a child’s ability to write. Reading helps to develop empathy in children. By stepping into somebody else's shoes for a while, they get to see and understand new perspectives. Texts and reading exercises for learners who like to follow health issues, with topics including organic foods and the dangers of transfats.If you decide to use poetry in your reading lessons, you’ll find this KS2 Poetry Detective Poem Analysis Worksheet to be a useful tool as the main activity. It’s available in three levels of difficulty, so you can choose the version that best suits the child’s ability. Whichever version they end up using, it asks them to identify the type of poem it is and record various thoughts about it, such as how it makes them feel and any similes or metaphors they find. To try this strategy, take a look at this How To Write a Summary Poster. This poster explains how to summarise information or a story with the help of a question hand. A question hand helps us to summarise the main ideas and themes by asking who, what, where, when, and why questions. Readers use written and visual clues from the text as well as their own personal experiences to make predictions about what might happen before, during, and after reading. Readers can also use the clues from the text to create a picture in their head. They use all their senses and imagination to create their mental image. Read with Purpose Asking students to relate to a story or a text is a great way to encourage students to engage with the details and take note of the features patterns of a text. For longer texts or stories, you can use questions for the class to encourage students to make personal connections to the story. For example:

Keeping your class engaged in class is vital, but it’s easier said than done. However, with our reading activities, that problem just became a lot easier to deal with.Yes! And the ones listed above can be expanded as children progress through primary school and into secondary school. Let’s look at some of these in more depth. Visualise and Predict If the child you’re tutoring has a solid grasp of the phonics side of reading and they’re ready to deepen their understanding of language, perhaps in preparation for the year 6 SATs, then there are plenty of resources for you to use too. Marking the text as you go along is a great way to show your engagement with it. For younger learners, highlighting key passages or phrases can help them to identify the most important aspects of a text.

Teaching pupils the skill of active reading carries a number of benefits for them. Active reading strategies not only help them understand the text better but also support learning the facts, details and overall connections of a topic. It's a great way to study for a test or assessment. Active reading is the act of reading to understand and evaluate a text. It’s often described as “reading with a purpose”. This helps pupils, children, and people of all ages to broaden their understanding of a text or knowledge of a subject. You can reread something over and over again, but it isn't the most effective way to digest the material. Children can improve this by using one or more active reading strategies. For example: His head is in the clouds. You can picture a very tall man, because the clouds are really high up. Alternatively, you could ask children to compare and contrast the language used in two different stories using this Comparing Two Stories By The Same Author Worksheet . A Venn diagram is provided, allowing children to write what’s similar and different about two stories by the same author. A collection of printable short stories for young learners of English (elementary to upper-intermediate). With audio and exercises.

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Topic-based reading exercises, each one including a reading text, pre-reading vocab, comprehension/vocab quizzes and suggested discussion questions Challenge them to colour coordinate their markings, with each different coloured highlighter pointing out a different feature of the text. This is great for visual learners, who learn best with a bright pop of colour. You can then display your children's brilliant work, using this Literacy Banner to help it all stand out. Active reading aids in concentration and focus. The information doesn’t go in one ear and out the other, and it can actually be digested. As an example, you could share a pre-written acrostic poem with your students, then use our All About Me Acrostic Poem Template to give them an opportunity to recreate these features and patterns for themselves. This activity encourages children to use descriptive language and letter recognition skills while learning about acrostic poems. It also prompts them to think about themselves and their likes and dislikes while exercising creative writing skills and reflecting on the features of poetry they have learnt about.

Build this into a group activity, by encouraging learners to swap and share their notes, and discuss each other's ideas. This is a great way to practise reciprocal reading, which reinforces active reading strategies and prompts group discussion. Have Students Summarise the Story In KS2, especially upper KS2, reading lessons should focus on deepening children’s understanding of language, as well as securing fluency if a child has fallen behind. Depending on what areas you intend to focus on with a particular tutee, your reading lessons will vary. Securing Phonics Fluency From fun games and comprehensive reading activities to interactive PowerPoints and handy worksheets, our vast range of teaching aids will help you engage children with difficult or long texts. Reading is an essential part of both the national curriculum and your pupils' everyday lives. Of course, we all know that reading is important, but what exactly are the prime benefits of having reading comprehension skills? Here are just a few that show why they're so critical:This active reading strategy confronts the practice of passive reading. To try this, before your students begin reading a text or story, give them each a task or 'mission'. For example, this could be a list of information or questions that students need to find the answers to. This will encourage children in the classroom to pay attention and seek out the details in a text. You might also like to have a look at our exciting Reading Challenges Activity Sheets that'll boost your pupils' enthusiasm. They can do these challenges individually or in smaller teams to reinforce teamwork. FAQ: Can I remove the " Created on The Teacher's Corner" (or similar) citation on the puzzles I create? No. That is not a benefit of our subscriptions. All citations must remain on worksheets and puzzles you create. Don't forget about reading targets. Having a goal to work towards will make your reading sessions more structured. Sharing these targets with pupils can also motivate them to work hard and achieve more. If you’re a tutor planning reading lessons for your tutees and you’re looking for inspiration for what to include, then you’ve come to the right place. Twinkl has plenty of ideas and resources that you can use in your reading lessons with your tutees, helping them to improve their skills and develop a love of reading at the same time. Reading Lessons for KS1