1. 12 th May 2015

2. Aims: From this session we hope that you will have an understanding of what happens during a Guided Reading session. From this session we hope that you will have an understanding of what happens during a Guided Reading session. We hope we can give you some useful ideas of how you can help your child at home. We hope we can give you some useful ideas of how you can help your child at home.

3. Creating a love of reading in children is potentially one of the most powerful ways of improving academic standards in school. There can be few better ways to improve pupils chances in school, or beyond in the wider world than to enable them to become truly independent readers.

4. What is reading? At the most basic level, reading is recognising words but recognition of the actual word is not enough on its own to constitute reading. Understanding what we are reading is key and is certainly the main point of teaching reading in a class. Reading is all about acquiring meaning; for enjoyment, information and understanding. Learning to read, reading to learn…

5. Where do children read? Computers, ipads, games consoles Television Newspapers, magazines, tv guides Environment – labels, cereal boxes, signs & logos Books, comics, posters, leaflets, dictionaries Menus, catalogues, recipes, instructions Road signs, maps

6. How do children learn to read? By being exposed to books, print and language from an early age Environmental print Phonics Learn to read whole words at pace Develop reading fluency Constructing meaning from print

7. What does guided reading look like? The teacher works with a small group of children who are at the same developmental stage of reading The teacher selects an unknown text that provides just the right balance of support and challenge The teacher reminds the children to use a range of reading strategies The teacher uses questioning and other strategies to develop comprehension

8. Guided Reading – what does it look like? A Year 2 class being taught Guided Reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFBMYc2YuEs

9. How will this look different? Guided Reading will be taking place from Year 1 to Year 6. Session will be 20-30 minutes every day. This means that: Not all children will be listened to individually by the class teacher. Independent reading books can and will be changed more frequently – the children have been taught how to do this.

10. How can you help? Making time to listen to your child read at home. Join the library. Let your children see you read. Encourage them to read different things – magazines, books, comics, things on ipads/computers – it’s all reading. Ask your child questions about the book they are reading. Share books with your child.

11. Help us to encourage a love of reading Encourage children to choose a book they’d like to read Read children’s favourite books again and again to encourage them to learn new words through repetition. Have a regular story time within your child’s routine. Share your favourite books with your child and talk about why you like them. Make up stories together, story time doesn't always have to involve a book! Take it in turns to read with your child. Tell them what you enjoyed about listening to them read.

12. The importance of reading Being able to read opens the doorway to learning and exploring the world in which we live. It will allow your child to become a successful and happy adult.

13. Whichever way we teach reading we want the same end product …children to be fluent and confident, to become lifelong readers and above all enjoy reading. Guided reading is just one of the approaches we adopt.

14. Any questions?