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Supporting Pupils With Reading
Supporting Pupils With Reading
We can break down the different areas of knowledge in top-down and bottom-up processing
when dealing with reading languages into a specific set of knowledge areas. We can then
come up with ideas for how to support our pupils in each area. Please add any more ideas
that you have to the table below.
Knowledge about the Pre-teach difficult or new 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.