In response to Paige's reading of Come Back, Pip! by Jan Weeks (Weeks, 2001), I would develop a reading focus for her that centred on the strategies of comprehension. I would choose this focus as it has the power to address several of the issues that came forward from Paige's reading. In particular, it would help grow Paige's self-confidence in reading, an absence of which showed itself in hesitation and distractibility. By building on her present skills and her developing sense of story structure and ability to connect text to world through prior experience, a comprehension focus could draw out a confident and enthralled reader from Paige. Recognising a developing capability for comprehension within Paige, I would plan a teaching session that modelled …show more content…
I would choose choral reading as it would assist in Paige's confidence as a reader, as her voice becomes one of a larger group, in addition to allowing her to experience intonation and cadence (Graves, Juel, Graves, & Dewitz, 2010). In addition to this, choral reading has been identified as an effective tool in developing reading ability, confidence, phonetic skills and comprehension (Kuhn & Schwanenflugel, 2008). To put this into practice in the classroom I would break the class into groups, with a mixture of fluent and beginning/emergent readers - this mixed ability assists in peer-to-peer learning (Algozzine, O'Shea, & Obiakor, 2009). When this has been done, I would assign a book that reaches a median space between too easy for a fluent reader and too challenging for the beginning literacy phase. The groups would then be asked to read through the story together and at the same time. In this practice, Paige would encounter a slower reading speeding to synchronise herself with others as well as hear the different intonation, emphasis and presence that different readers give to the text. When they have done this, I would sit with the group and reflect on what they found interesting as they heard others