Reading


 * Stories for students



Ideas for reading resources (ie to purchase): ** [|A-Z online readers] [|Accelerated Reading Programme] (in Sue's dreams) [|Penguin Graded Readers](Louisa) [|Oxford Graded Readers] (Diane) English For Us (Jenny - got a website Jenny?) [|Good Word Books](Jenny)

** Strategies: ** [|Reciprocal reading] works well (Diane)


 * __Dictogloss__** - teacher read passage, students take notes. then students work in paris or groups to try to reconstruct the passage exactly, using their notes as a guide. (Angela)


 * __Wall text__** - text is put on the wall, too far away for seated students to read. Students take it in turns to go to the text, memorise as much as possible, then return to their group and repeat to the other members so they can write it down. (Angela)

NOTE WELL: You know the brown 'Effective Literacy Strategies Book'? An excellent resource that went out to every teacher in an attempt to promote Literacy across the curriculum, but only the English teachers bothered with it? Spiral bound jobbie? Well I brought mine with me (Sue), so if you're wanting to borrow it, that's fine. I've also done up a booklet that takes the best of the strategies in that book, plus a few others. Unfortunately I can't get it to load at this stage. Will have to convert to pdf I think. Somebody remind me!

Good ideas for how to approach vocabulary (some from Effective Literacy Strategies). Nice and simple overview: Thanks to Angela for passing this one our way:

Thanks to Louisa for these mammoth booklets on reading strategies:

from Jenny
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