Another great resource for teaching reading strategies in the Primary/ Junior
grades is Reading Power by Adriene Gear. She also has a new resource for Non
Fiction Reading Power. In this resource she provides wonderful songs that teach
the children the basics about the strategy and she also includes lessons and
book suggestions for each strategy. I love the concept that she uses a "brain"
divided into sections that relate to each of the reading strategies. To be a
proficient reader you use all the strategies ... some of the time ... so the
children do not get the idea that each strategy is used in isolation. I keep a
picture of a head with the brain up all year ... then as we are focussing on
each of the strategies we colour in the section we are working on and I also
have a big black arrow pointing to this reading strategy. Below the brain I
include a variety of sentence stems (many are from Tanny McGregor's) book to
help the children use the strategy in
their book conversations. I also use the Daily Five model in my Grade One
classroom so during Read to Someone the students are working on using the
"reading Strategy" vocabulary in their "Check for Understanding" conversations
with their partners.
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Jo-Ann
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