Reading

During Term 4 our reading groups in 5D will be working with the Highgate Collection of readers and the Core Library set of readers. These readers cover a range of reading abilities and focus on reading skills such as character studies, reading for meaning, finding meanings of unknown words, making inferences, making predictions, summarising, evaluating, stating opinions and finding information, asking questions,making responses, describing emotions and clarifying ideas. The readers cover a wide range of reading interests and include picture books, chapter books, non-fiction books and sophisticated picture books. Reading sessions will involve individual conferencing of books being read by individual students. Students will be rostered in for set conferencing times with the teacher. During a conferencing session, the teacher will hear a student read, ask questions about the book and check that reading activities are current and that the student understands what he/she is reading and is able to read the text fluently.