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

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Find more reading activities with the help of the Totally Pawsome Reading Gang. Here, your class will hang out with Vocabulary Victor, Iggy Inference, Predicting Pip, Rex Retriever and Sequencing Suki to improve their reading comprehension skills. These five dogs all link to the reading skills outlined in the reading content domains, meaning your pupils will be learning and having a blast at the same time. We know children do judge a book by its cover, so we've also included a range of resources that keep lessons varied and exciting. Whether it's storybooks, comic books, or biographies - we have something for everyone. Indeed, these fab guided reading activities for KS2 will soon become main characters of your classroom! Helping everyone to find their story For older learners, this should only be the first step! Encourage them to take notes, either on a separate piece of paper, or in the margins, annotating the text as they read it. This can help them approach the text analytically, ensuring that they are engaging fully with what it is they're reading. It can also encourage them to think creatively about the text, thinking outside the box to come up with interesting and unique takes. They could jot down their own ideas about the topic, or write questions that they'd like to ask the author, the answer to which haven't been included in the text itself. After reading a story with your students or child, why not ask them to summarise what they have heard? This is a great way to assess how they best engage with stories and texts. For longer texts or stories, you can use questions for the class to encourage students to make personal connections to the story. For example:

Reading is the third of the four language skills, which are: 1. Listening 2. Speaking 3. Reading 4. Writing It improves the likelihood that children will achieve well in other areas of their learning, as reading comprehension is a core aspect of most subjects.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. 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.

Use context to help you figure out what is happening in the text. A text will have different things happening in it depending on what type (or genre) of text it is.

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Ideally, they should choose stories from different genres, to develop their understanding of author intent and how they use writing techniques to create an effect. You could also use this worksheet with two poems by the same poet, depending on what your reading lessons focus on. 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. Everyone loves a reward, right? Certificates and awards are a brilliant way to boost motivation and encourage children to keep on reading, especially if they're reluctant or hesitant. A simple certificate for finishing a book could be just the motivation a child needs to start reading the next one. 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.

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

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 This range of reading activities for KS2 has been expertly curated to ensure that there's an activity to suit every type of learner. With a resource for every occasion with dozens of seasonal and topical activities, your children will be exploring fantasy worlds, historical events, and other culture in no time through their new-found love of reading!