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Teaching Assistant National Strategy

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The national strategy promotes that teaching is:
• Informed challenging and progressive objectives
• It is direct and explicit
• Highly interactive, inspiring, and motivating
• Offers varied styles
• Well suited to the pupils and their needs
• Inclusive and ambitious
Strategies which could be used by the teaching assistant to support literacy development can include:
• Explaining: A skilled reader will interact with the text when they are reading. A skilled reader will possibly:
• Use clues in the text to predict what will happen next
• Produce questions about the main idea, message, or the plot
• Monitor an understanding of the characters, sequence, or context
• Link the content of the text to their life experiences or knowledge
• Receive clarification on text which they do not understand
• Modelling: A teaching assistant can help and support a pupil’s literacy development by providing them with models of fluent reading. Some pupils will learn better by having something physical, so by having a good model of fluent reading which they can listen to will help the written text make more sense.
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