Teaching Suggestions
Purposeful Book Selection/ Wide Reading
Emergent (K-1)p.62
Read to students and share enjoyment of reading. Provide a print-rich environment (books, environmental print, posters, signs, labels). In the context of shared reading with enlarged print, engage students in reading and rereading a wide variety of predictable texts featuring rhyme, rhythm, and repetition. (See Shared Reading pp. 172–173.) Provide daily opportunities for students to practise reading or readinglike behaviour and to select from a variety of texts, especially simple predictable texts. Teach children how to make appropriate choices (e.g., modelling reasons for choosing a particular book; letting children know that it is acceptable to return a book and get another if it is too difficult). Ensure availability of materials that students can successfully read on their own. |
Early (1-2)p.74
Provide a rich, stimulating environment where students are surrounded by print and other kinds of texts. Provide daily opportunities for students to read/view and respond to a variety of texts: Teach mini-lessons on making appropriate selections (modelling reasons for choosing certain books or determining if a book is too difficult). Show students how to keep reading logs. |
Transitional (3-4)p.98
Read to students and have them read and view a wide variety of types of texts. p.94 Create opportunities for students to interact with a wide variety of preselected materials set up in learning stations and/or engage in the research process with increasing independence. p.86 Provide daily opportunities for students to read/view, selecting from a variety of texts with some guidance. Teach mini-lessons on making appropriate text selections (e.g., using table of contents or index to determine if text contains information to serve learning needs; determining whether a book is too difficult). Provide a rich stimulating environment where students are surrounded by a wide variety of print and other kinds of texts (e.g., fiction--including picture books and chapter books—poetry, non-fiction, magazines, films, videos, software such as CD-ROM) |