English: Reading

In this section of the website you will find materials related to readers of all ages. Practical information regarding using big books and novels to develop reading skills are included, as well as helpful resources related to assessment.

• Emergent reading
• Language experience charts
• Sight vocabulary: teaching stratgies
• Izzy and Skunk: Infants
• Picture book: planning template
  Managing and teaching reading in the multi grade setting 

• Planning activities around a big book
• Choosing big books
• "Big Blue Whale: First and second class
• Big book: planning template
• Collaborative reading
• Using wall stories to support literacy

•  Using real books with Fifth and Sixth class: overview
  
• Suggested calendar for an integrated approach to reading
• Working with a novel: Fifth and Sixth class
• An approach to a reading session
• Classroom management
• Reading log or journal

  Poetry

• Poetry ideas

  Library

•  Setting up a library

 Word recognition

• Phonological awareness

•  Reading fluency

 Comprehension

• Strategies for teaching comprehension skills 
• Checklist for comprehension

•  Comprehension strategies for fiction

•  Comprehension strategies for non fiction

 Assessment

• Phonological awareness checklist 
• Conventions for recording miscues
• 220 Dolch words in story form