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.
School polices should encourage parents or family members to read aloud to their child daily and when at home. Most schools provide pupils with a book to take home and a diary to say when the book was read and to leave any comments on pupils reading. When a
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A language-rich environment forms the foundation on which reading skills are built, including; decoding, fluency, vocabulary and understanding. A child’s vocabulary development will grow if they are part of a rich language environment and if they are regularly exposed to increasingly challenging texts. A child’s vocabulary skills can be measured by their understanding of words and expressive vocabulary words. If a child does not have a wide vocabulary then they will not be able to read