Secondary Form 5

Supporting pupils in Reading

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Knowledge area Example of teaching and learning strategy

Knowledge about the Pre-teach difficult or key vocabulary and leave it written on
combination of letters the board for pupils to refer to.

Knowledge about Use substitution tables, gap-fills and ‘complete the sentence’
sentence structure tasks to help pupils’ understanding of sentence structure.

Knowledge about Pre-teach language chunks (e.g. collocation and certain

word combinations grammatical structures).

Expose pupils to suitable examples of a range of text types.

Knowledge about text
structure Use activities to teach the structure, features and language
associated with specific text types.

Use a short warm-up task to activate prior knowledge of the

topic (before reading the text) through a motivating task
such as using a visual (photo, video clip, cartoon or
Knowledge about the
diagram) to introduce the topic.
world or topic
Invite pupils to share what they already know about the
topic.