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.
