2. Relevance of methods to modern life
Memories of reading inP5/6/7?
• Focus on fluency
• Did you ever get shown how
to make sense of the text?
• Did you ever get asked your
opinion of the text?
3. Do we need a different skillset in 2015?
• Engage with and create a broad range of texts, including Scottish and Scots
texts
• Find and use information
• Develop criticalliteracy skills,evaluatingsources
• Use metacognitive reading strategies to understand, analyse and evaluate texts
• Develop and use higher-order thinkingskills.
• Create texts of increasing complexity using more sophisticated language
• Takingreading into writing…
4. Too much information!
Teaching readinghasmoved
beyondjust teaching thetechnical skills ofreading.Wemust
help ourchildren makesense, processandevaluatethe array
ofinformationsourcestheyareexposedto.
12. Inference– Baboon on the Moon
• Why does the baboon live on the moon?
• Where is hefrom on earth?
• Howdoes hefeel?
• Who would have sent him to moon?
• Could hesent by NASA to earth?
• I think heis lonely becausehe is playing a sad
song and he is looking at the earth.
• Possible clues –duvet cover, arton wall,
music
I think….. because
What MIGHTbe going on?
Creating questions without
necessarilyhaving the answer
already
Possible clues