Emma Cuthbert, Interim PT at Bainsford Primary School is delighted to share the wonderful work her P2/1 class has been carrying out in relation to higher order reading skills.
The class have already studied Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers and completed a thinker reader booklet. The start of this session has been spent on Book Detective skills and roles and comprehension related to their reading books.
They have recently studied Pink – again by Oliver Jeffers and you can see some evidence of their hard work here.
Emma and her class are making an extremely valuable contribution to the Literacy Strategy and plans to go onto applying these skills to other texts. Sharon Wallace, Curriculum Support Officer is really impressed with the quality of reading here and has invited Emma to share this good practice at an authority CPD event.
Can you spot the 6 comprehension strategies in operation here?
1. Prior knowledge and understanding – what do you already know about penguins? What do you know about pink?
2. Metalinguistics – can you spot the tricky words or phrases? Can you find the word ‘penguin’ in the text?
3. Visualisers – can you draw of a picture of the story so far?
4. Inference – reading between the lines questions
5. Main ideas
6. Summarising
The children really enjoy the Thinking Reader approach and here are a few quotes to share:
“I really enjoyed ‘finding the evidence’ in the book” Ella
“Can we do these again for a different story? They are fun.” Jack
It looks as though your children had lots of fun reading the book and becoming detectives to find the evidence. You mentioned that the children completed a “thinking reader booklet”. Can you explain what this is and where I can find an example. Many thanks.
Hello Angie, thanks for your comment. Yes, the thinking reader is an active reading approach – recommended by Education Scotland. It incorporates all 6 reading comprehension strategies. There are lots of examples on GLOW – and lots of wonderful examples from our schools on twitter too. Hope this helps.