"I believe that pupils do need to be taught and shown how to read with understanding and that making connections through the use of thinking skills is very important."
- Bev Bannon, Literacy Advisory Teacher
"The programme opened the gates to their understanding of prediction, clarification, questioning and summarising. "
- Maureen Lewis, NLS, 2006
Facilitating: Thinking to Read - Reading to Think
Donna Thomson
Comprehension Specialist
Course Leader
Courses / Workshops.INSETS .
POST COURSE HELP-LINE
GUIDANCE & SUPPORT SERVICE (School visits)
a) implementing Reciprocal Reading Framework
b) analysing Comprehension Thinking Skills
Assessment results - what to do next…..
Course / Workshops in Association with the Devon Education Services : -
Courses include: Step-by-step instruction – to support the explicit teaching of literal, inference and evaluation thinking skills for Key Stage 1 and 2.
Emphasis on guiding comprehension by highlighting, clarifying and generally extending vocabulary and phrasing so that the children become used to exploring and interpreting the precise meaning of words within the context of a passage, help to extend the child’s thinking, prediction skills, understanding and responses to subtle inference within text, and enable a greater connection with the author overall.
Also as everyone agrees, it is essential to develop a child’s ownership of his own learning through questioning and investigation by encouraging constant exploration of information and ideas within text – so as to broaden and enrich his own thinking and experience of life – enabling him to articulate and back up his own opinions and views with clarity and confidence. (Click on Books to Buy for further information about Assessment to support teaching of these strategies).
Outline of DES Courses: Teaching Reading Comprehension at KS1 & 2
Developing the Reciprocal Reading Process
Tutors: Joy Simpson and Donna Thomson
Course Outline: Teaching Reading Comprehension at KS1 & 2
Developing the Reciprocal Reading Process at KS2
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Course tutors |
Donna Thomson and Joy Simpson |
Target audience |
Teachers at KS1 & 2
Literacy subject leaders |
Course description |
Our courses support teachers in developing children's mean-making strategies in reading. The partner to Teaching Reading Comprehension is Developing the Reciprocal Reading Process. Both courses stand alone - but together provide a fuller picture of how to develop comprehension texts. |
Course objectives |
Teaching Reading Comprehension
- how to teach children of all abilities to seek and identify explicit, hidden, inferred and personal meaning within text.
- how this will enable them to answer literal, inference and evaluation questions accurately and meaningfully
- how this will enable their children to generate their own literal, inference and evaluation questions.
- how to assess these thinking skills to monitor progress and prepare a teaching focus to support individuals, whole classes and year groups.
Developing the reciprocal Reading Process
- exploring what the reciprocal model is
- trying out the reciprocal model.
- reflecting upon classroom practice in the light of this understanding.
- implementing reciprocal reading in your classroom.
- discovering how this fits with Assessing Pupil Progress in reading.
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Course subject area |
Literacy |
Online cost |
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