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

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A collection of printable short stories for young learners of English (elementary to upper-intermediate). With audio and exercises. Indeed, this range of guided 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 newfound love of reading! 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 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.

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 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. 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. 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.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: For longer texts or stories, you can use questions for the class to encourage students to make personal connections to the story. For example: 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

For example: His head is in the clouds. You can picture a very tall man, because the clouds are really high up. 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. 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. In primary education, students are learning a great many skills across many topics. This means that it could begin to feel overwhelming to students to receive a lot of information in one day of learning.

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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. 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

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.These techniques encourage children to enjoy reading and get something out of it. This helps to avoid the problem of just reading for the sake of it, or because they’re being told to do it. They are “reading with a purpose”. 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. One of the best ways to keep your pupils engaged in your sessions is with 60-Second Reads. With only 90-120 words and four short comprehension questions, this is the perfect way to dramatically improve English fluency. These activities will get your class’ reading skills up to national standards and help you save time. Texts and reading exercises for learners who like to follow health issues, with topics including organic foods and the dangers of transfats. 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.