We have aligned our teaching of reading with Jane Considine’s ‘Hooked on Books’ approach.
During the week, children take part in ‘Book Talk’ a whole class guided reading session.
In those ‘Book Talk’ sessions you will find our children reading by themselves, reading with a partner, reading as a whole class or listening to the class teacher model reading.
Children use the ‘Reading Rainbow’ to read and respond to texts through different lenses within 3 different zones of reading:
The Fantastics,
The Stylistics
The Analytics.
Book Talk is key to developing oracy skills. Children collaborate in groups using sentence stems and high utility words to develop a Book Talk response.
Children also complete comprehension tasks when working independently.