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A guide to teaching reading: Prep

‘Every child deserves every opportunity to learn to be the best reader they can be. The teaching of reading is every teacher’s responsibility.
In every year level and in every learning area, you are a teacher of reading.’ Online coaching module: How to teach reading.

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Day 11 Provide opportunities for students to: Provide opportunities for students to:

I nclude books in Cut and paste activities to develop one-to-one correspondence.

Read, trace and write their own name.
arrival activities. Reading Read high-frequency words in simple texts.
Read words in the school environment.
texts Commence building a bank of sight words.
 lay matching games
P Predict the title and content of picture books.
with name cards. Read simple, decodable texts.

Label the learning

environment. Match text to illustrations.
Explore sequencing of plots in familiar stories.
Read the first book from Read and draw basic sentences to build visualisation skills.
Comprehension Retell stories with props and visual aids.
your series that reflect Listen to stories that will allow students to gain deep
Develop initial understanding of text-dependent questions.
children’s life experiences. understanding of characters.

Sing songs, rhymes

and fingerplays. Learn vocabulary about books and reading: title, cover, word,
Play memory games about classifications: colours, sentence, print.
Vocabulary animals, toys, fruit, vehicles, family members, occupations.
Play oral language games. Explore vocabulary in familiar stories.
knowledge Discuss feelings and thoughts about what happened
in stories. Learn book language: Once upon a time, and then ...
and they all lived happily ever after.

Participate in systematic and explicit phonics

instruction of letters and common sounds as
Practise stating the alphabet and matching letters on informed by Australian Curriculum: English.
Phonics
a frieze or ABC cards.
Blend and segment consonant-vowel-consonant
(CVC) words as you learn letters and sounds.

Read and sing rhymes, verses and chants.

Identify first sound, medial sound and final sound in words.
Phonemic Clap syllables.
Sort items by initial sound. Play ‘odd one out’ games.
awareness Play oral language games with words.
Continue rhyming games. Explore rhymes in texts.
Sort items that start with the same initial sound.

Model and guide how to read a book.

Explore the concept of a word, matching written text
Concepts to spoken words. Learn about sentence structures in books.
about print Practice left-to-right progression, consistency of text Explore punctuation: capital letters, print styles, full stops.
and the concept of uppercase and lowercase letters.
Cut and paste words to make basic sentences.
Once you have analysed your Early Start data, plot your students’ achievements on the Literacy continuum, plan learning goals and monitor progress. Continue to build a learning culture that
engages and motivates students to learn to read in all learning areas. You will make meaning from text by linking reading, speaking, writing and drawing.