The Purpose for Reading in the Classroom
Enjoying reading together
Promoting books
Exposure to new and interesting words - build vocabulary
Building an understanding of the dynamics and structure of a story - characters, setting, plot, climax, themes, resolution
Encourage discussion and debate
Seed ideas for writing
Teacher - Reader Behaviours
- teacher modelling reading
- being confident
- taking a risk with using different voices
- make mistakes and re-read
- using an expressive voice
- being enthusiastic about books
- modelling sentence phrasing by reading the punctuation speeding up and slowing down
Modelling positive reader behaviours
- re-read for understanding
- identifying new and interesting words
- asking questions about words and meaning
- encouraging prediction
- thinking about meaning
- making connections between ideas in the text
- making connections to the world
- applying ideas and lessons to the world
Developing listeners
- predicting skills
- ability to connecting prior knowledge
- visualisation of the story
- ideas to discuss and debate
- imagination
- enjoyment of books
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