Promoting Thinking in Reading: Literacy Toolkit Activities

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit HGIOS4 Where does it link to How Good is Our School? 2.2 Curriculum 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessment 2.4 Personalised support

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Agenda Activity 1 Introduction / Starter Activity (5 mins) Activity 2 How s it going / feedback (10-20 mins) Activity 3 New Learning (25-40 mins) Activity 4 Personal Action Planning (10 mins) Activity 5 Summary of Learning (5 mins)

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Activity 1: Voice on the table In a maximum of 30 seconds: What do you think the image below is a magnified view of?

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Activity 1: Voice on the table When concentrating on the finer details, were you able to see the bigger picture?

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Activity 1: Reading is thinking This video attempts to summarise what is happening inside your head when you are reading. Reading is Thinking Questioning is fundamental to the reading process. As well as asking questions, what other strategies are we developing when we are attempting to comprehend a text?

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Activity 2: How s it going? Reflecting on the Super Six comprehension strategies, discussed in Teaching Comprehension Strategies: New South Wales, what opportunities are you providing in your current reading programme to support: Making connections Prediction Questioning Monitoring Summarising Visualising Where do you feel you are with this? What evidence do you have?

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Activity 3: New Learning It is important that all learners are given appropriate opportunities to develop their thinking skills. These skills can be developed across a range of contexts including through more practical or applied learning opportunities: Remembering Understanding Applying Analysing Evaluating Creating CfE: Building the Curriculum 4

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Activity 3: New Learning Using the Education Scotland Literacy and English benchmarks for reading, highlight: a) Where comprehension skills feature in these benchmarks? b) Where thinking skills feature in these these benchmarks? Where are the links between developing thinking and comprehension skills in these benchmarks?

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Activity 3: New Learning Referring back to the Comprehension Strategies, and with your knowledge of Thinking Skills and the Literacy and English Reading progression, complete the last column: What could be your next steps?

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Activity 4: Personal Action Planning Over the coming weeks, look for opportunities to prioritise a Thinking Approach when developing reading comprehension. Choose one or two elements that you are going to explore and evaluate. Bring back your findings to the next session

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit Activity 5: Summary of Learning Write your name on the card or post-it and one new thing you learned about promoting thinking in reading. Leave your card or post-it on your way out.

Reading Between the Lines Promoting thinking in reading . . . Literacy Toolkit FOLLOW UP LINKS: Education Scotland Reading Strategies Teaching Comprehension Strategies Comprehension Handbook Education Scotland Literacy Benchmarks CfE - Developing Skills Bloom's Question Fans