It Only Takes 5 Minutes – Reading Workshops We want to try to get the message across that reading doesn’t have to be a drawn out, tedious task and that skills can be developed with good questioning and helping chdn to think about what they are being told/what they are finding out in a text

What is involved in becoming a reader? Knowledge Attitudes Skills

What is involved in becoming a reader? Motivation To be curious and inquisitive Persistence Resilience Willingness to take risks and correct own errors Confidence – the belief we will learn to read and get better Recognition of the value of reading and the ability to see books as a sources of pleasure, satisfaction, information and understanding To be reflective Attitudes

What is involved in becoming a reader? Active process Ability to develop a range of strategies That the text is the same each time you read it That the marks on the page tell you what to say That language is composed of separable words The words you say represent the words on the page (1-2-1 correspondence) That words are made up of letters Writing conventions (left to right & top to bottom) To be able to use ‘book’ language A reliable sight vocabulary The ability to read pictures Knowledge Knowledge will develop differently in all children and in different stages

What is involved in becoming a reader? Concentration Ability to develop and orchestrate a range of strategies To be able to retell, predict, rerun and self-correct The ability to use their knowledge of the world and books to think what would make sense Skills

comprehension skills and help develop engagement Tell Me Grid – discuss images, books, articles – talk around texts will boost comprehension skills and help develop engagement What do you like about the image? Why? Is there anything you dislike about the image? Why? Is there anything about the image that puzzled you? Shocked you? Made you wonder? Does the image remind you of any stories you have read, films or other images you have seen? What connections did you make? If this was an illustration in a book, what do you think might happen in the story? What makes you think this? Questions can be adapted for different text types

Taken from Tuesday by David Wiesner Encourage children to justify their thoughts and ideas. Enjoy ‘talking around’ what you read together – if your child truly understands what they read they will be able to relate to events, empathise with characters and enjoy what they read more. What does the word ‘confusion’ mean? What is the man drinking? How do you know? What do you think the man is thinking? Why? How has David Weisner shown that the man is surprised? Taken from Tuesday by David Wiesner