Inferring Teaching Session

Congratulations to the team who taught Room 5 about inferring. You went the extra mile and wrote excellent comments on the learners work. Well done! You really know your strategy well.

Summarising

After presenting our movies we decided to go one step further! Each Movie Making Group is also taking a lesson in Mrs Beaumont's class teaching their Reading Strategy. Jack, Jarod and Rosie were first off and (according to Mrs Beaumont) did a fantastic job. Teachers in the making. Well done!

Visualising

This is a movie about the Reading Strategy VISUALISING. Visualising is when you read a text and you make a movie or picture in your head while you read.

Synthesising

This is a movie about the Reading Strategy SYNTHESISING. Synthesising is when you use the information in a text, combine them with your own knowledge and come up with a new idea or a new way of thinking.

Summarising

This is a movie about the Reading Strategy SUMMARISING. Summarising is about finding the main points or ideas in a text. It is being able to explain the reading in a nutshell.

Self Monitoring

This is a movie about the Reading Strategy SELF MONITORING. Self Monitoring is about knowing when you stop understanding what you are reading. If you know you do not understand then you can stop and find out what it is that you do not understand.

Questioning

A movie about the Reading Strategy QUESTIONING. Questioning is when you ask questions before, during and after reading a text. The questions might be
-What is this about?
-What is going to happen next?
-How did that happen?
-I wonder how the author is going to explain that twist?

Questions help you understand.

Predicting

A movie about the Reading Strategy PREDICTING. Predicting means thinking about what might be about to happen in the story, or thinking about what the story might be about.

Inferring

A movie about INFERRING. Inferring means using the clues provided by the author and your prior knowledge to "get" what the author means. It is about reading between the lines.

Activating Prior Knowledge

A movie about the Reading Strategy ACTIVATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE. That means thinking about what you already know and relating that to what you are reading. Your prior knowledge could be life experiences, what you have read in other books or what you have seen on T.V. or at the movies.