Important in a guided reading lesson, Discussion about the text ( prediction, inference, vocabulary, author choices and connections), Use of literal, inferential and evaluative questions, Children are encouraged to explain their thinking, not just provide an answer, Target vocabulary is revisited in a new context ; orally and in writing., Children are asked to use new vocabulary in their own sentences, explanations or discussions., Short, purposeful comprehension tasks focused on the skill taught., Include talk before writing, particularly for children developing English., Use sentence stems to support increasingly sophisticated responses, e.g. “I think ___ because ___.”, Sequencing activities, Ask children to justify answers using evidence from the text., Revisit vocabulary over several days rather than teaching it once and moving on., Use follow-up tasks that gradually move from supported practice → independent application., Where appropriate, allow children to use their home language toexplore and rehearse meaning before expressing ideas in English., true, false, prove it activities, children act as evidence detectives where they have to find evidence within the text to prove a certain inference e.g ‘ the character is worried’, vocabulary continuum- children place words on a scale such as ‘ tiny - small- medium- large- enormous’, synonym/ antonym matches using vocabulary from the text, hot seating- child answers questions in role as a character, one sentence summary, change one thing- rewrite part of the story, Less important in a guided reading lesson, Recall-based questions e.g “What was the boy’s name?, Teacher tells children unfamiliar words, A long list of definitions is given before reading., colouring a picture from the story, copy sentences from the book, write out new vocabulary 3 times, complete a wordsearch, make a bookmark, find words beginning with a particular letter, make a craft that links to the book, copy out definitions of words in book from a dictionary instead of using own words., draw favourite character

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