Reading for comprehension
Children are taught to read for comprehension across a range of subjects throughout the school week. However, they also receive a dedicated reading session daily where they develop the skills of fluency and comprehension.
Our comprehension is taught using the following weekly pattern:
Day | Focus | Reading Skills Modelled by teacher | Children’s tasks |
Monday | Familiarisation: teacher modelling the text Skill: how to gather information from a text. | Think aloud, Text Mark-up, Tune-in/ Tune out, slow reveal, text discussion, vocabulary work. Summarise 5 key points. Extract needs to be no longer than 2 pages. | Vocabulary tasks: Word webs, FRAYER model, dictionary/ thesaurus work, morphology. |
Tuesday | Immersion/ Text Discussion Skill: Children understanding key themes/ ideas within the text. | Line by line reveal Vocabulary choice Text Mark up
| Text mark-up Annotating passage with thoughts.
Model acting/freeze frames/sequencing/timelines/ conscience alley etc. |
Wednesday | Question stem Focus (linked to VIPERS- could be more than one) Skill: how to respond to different question types. | Teacher models how to answer specific question stems. | Answer the questions alongside the teacher. (see question stems attached) |
Thursday | Question stem Focus (linked to VIPERS- could be more than one) Skill: how to respond to different question types. | Introduce children to the next part of the extract (no more than 2 pages long). Model think aloud to guided group other children could work in pairs of independently to read and answer questions. | Children independently answer questions with the same stems using the same skills practised all week (on the extract from the start of the lesson.). |
Friday | Book change, book talk/silent reading | ||