Balanced Reading Program

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<ul><li>Collaborative effort of Teachers, Lead teachers, Resource Staff and Principals</li></ul>

Read Alouds

Shared Reading

Independent Reading

Guided Reading

Modelled Reading by teachers to build a community of readers.<br><br><ul><li>Read Alouds are done daily with the whole class for about 20-25 minutes to model fluent reading by teacher to promote love of reading, talk about various genres, introduce new strategies and demonstrate them by read aloud / think aloud.</li><li>It involves three phases

before, during and after reading and help students develop ear for vocabulary and structures of language in print. and encourages prediction, involves asking questions to students.</li><li>A variety of reading material can be used like pre-selected books, morning messages, magazines, e-books, word-walls which help students link prior knowledge to new learning, develops sense of story / text and has to be well planned to achieve results.</li><li>Rereading, inferencing, comprehension, engaging students by asking questions, discussing story elements are examples of effective instructions to help students understand text better.</li><li>Space- classroom, carpet area, or classroom library, weather permitting, it can take place outdoors under the tree with careful planning to avoid distractions.</li></ul>

Interactive approach, the development of new reading skills, consolidate the ones previously taught<br><br><ul><li>Teacher and students read together to construct meaning, teacher demonstrates how reading works, how to deocde unknown words, phrase words, develop fluency, implement reading strategies, and also to increase comprehension. </li><li>Students practice new and previously learnt reading strategies in a safe environment, occurs daily and can be used for cross-curricular teaching.</li><li>Focus of shared reading is to teach concept of print, elements of text, cueing systems and other reading strategies of accessing prior knowledge, self -monitoring, self-correcting through experience</li><li>Big books / charts / maps / graphs/ repetitive pattern books / word walls / songs/ poems or text written on overhead that all children can see is used for shared reading to foster letter-sound relationship and other cueing systems.</li><li>ongoing observations assessment for future instructions</li></ul>