When planning your reading group sessions, what is the focus? Reading group sessions which involve the teacher require a chunk of teacher time out of your literacy session. To ensure everyone is benefiting from this time, we have created a guide to what you might focus on during your reading group sessions.
This guide also includes some suggestions for how you can provide essential practice in developing reading fluency.
Daily and ongoing assessment is key to ensuring that our teaching and learning is geared to what children need to make progress. This reading assessment tool can help you plan, over a term /year, which skills children are acquiring and which they need to practise. Our suggestion is you can focus on specific aspects e.g. answering inferential questions, or retelling the main points with a particular group and record how individuals are doing.
