Teaching+Reading

=**Teaching Reading...** =

When it comes to teaching reading, there is not just one approach that is 100% effective and that works for every child. Teachers need to engage children in different activities and develop teaching strategies in order to fit the context and experience of each individual child.

All children learn in their own time.Children need to explore how they learn and how knowledge develops by asking questions and then actively seeking answers (Hill, 2006 p3).

There are many various teaching approaches which prove affective when teaching reading, each different approach should be selected to best meet student needs. The main approaches to Teaching Reading are:
 * **Modelled Reading**
 * **Shared Reading**
 * **Guided reading**
 * **Independent Reading**

Teachers need to think about and prepare for each reading lesson. 3 stages for planning reading lessons include:
 * 1) **Before Reading -** the teacher connects the book to the children's prior knowledge and interests, tuning them in by posing questions and inviting them to make predictions about the text.
 * 2) **During Reading -** teachers give a range of problem solving prompts to support the reader as they integrate information from several sources, such as the meaning of the text, syntax or the sounds of letters to figure out the print.
 * 3) **After Reading** - teachers plan a range of activities for the children to practice what they need so they can become more independent readers.

Teachers can use Teaching Prompts during reading to draw children's attention to the //meaning, syntax// and //visual information// in a text. When children begin to learn these prompts, they can use them to read more and more complex texts.

Children should be encouraged to use all sources of information and in result, they would become skillful readers.