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Reading and Viewing

Reading and viewing are meaning-making, problem solving activities that provide opportunities to interact with a wide range of written and visual text for a variety of purposes. Readers learn to integrate a variety of meaning, structure, vocabulary, and word solving strategies and skills as they develop thoughtful and critical understanding and insight into written or visual representations of text.

Essential Learning Outcome 2

The learner will demonstrate a variety of ways to use background knowledge and interests to select and engage critically with a range of culturally diverse paper-based, visual, and digital texts for pleasure and personal growth.

Grade One Expectations

Specific Curriculum Outcomes

  • 2.1 Reflect on and connect interests and background knowledge before, during and after reading.
  • 2.2 Apply Concepts About Print to navigate Emergent/Early level text.
  • 2.3 Connect background knowledge to new learning.
  • 2.4 Regard reading/viewing as sources of interest, enjoyment, and information.
  • 2.5 Engage in reading or reading-like behaviour to experience a variety of text and text forms.
  • 2.6 Participate in opportunities to share favourite texts with peers.
  • 2.7 Re-read, retell and act out selections of familiar stories, poems, and nonfiction texts.
  • 2.8-2.13 Select and engage critically with texts for personal growth.

Learning Strategies

  • Practicing what I've learned about reading: Design reading corners with access to paper-based and digital texts.
  • Read Around the room: Create a literate classroom environment with learner-created wall prints.
  • Sharing what I read: Provide opportunities to share texts through retelling, drawings, and role playing.
  • Searching for books to become a better reader: Model the Five Finger Rule for choosing "just right" books.
  • Pictures and words work together: Use Book Walks to demonstrate how illustrations support stories.

Additional Resources and Materials

Books and Digital Resources

  • School libraries: Hands Across the Seas books
  • Early Learner Programme Student Resources
  • Global Digital Library (digitallibrary.io)
  • Bloom Library (bloomlibrary.org)
  • Let's Read Asia Foundation (letsreadasia.org)

Teacher Resources

  • International Literacy Association resources
  • Edutopia Topic Index
  • Running Records assessment guides
  • Phonological awareness development charts
  • Word identification strategies

Components of Reading and Viewing Instruction

  • Teacher Read Aloud: A systematic method of reading aloud to scaffold children's understanding.
  • Shared Reading: An interactive reading experience where students join in the reading while guided by a teacher.
  • Guided Reading: Teacher works with small groups who have similar reading needs.
  • Independent Reading: Students read on their own for their own purposes.
  • Buddy Reading: Students support each other while reading.