Reading

AND READING.....**
 * INDEPENDENT READING......

During this term, the Victorian government has made up a new thing caled "Independent reading". Independent reading is different to silent reading as you cant get up out of your seat (unless your borrowing a book from our class room library.) you cant also get up and start talking to the teachers unless an emergency, and heaps more.

I think independent reading has helped me a lot because it helps me understand my reading a lot more. I have found that I am enjoying my book a lot more ( which is "Twilight.") and I think that independent reading has made me enjoy my reading much more.

In independent reading, we are given little and coloured note pads that we make predictions on. We also have these little blue books which are very useful, as we do our weekly reflections in there, our clarifying words in there, our changing predictions and also our checking predictions.

Our teacher, Mr. Darby, has a reading conference with us and checks up on us on how we are going in our reading, and so far I think I am going pretty good. At the end of the conference with him, Mr. Darby sets us goals at the back of our little blue books.

The way reciprocal reading works is that we get into our groups that the teachers placed us in according to our levels of comprehension.etc. What we do in our reciprocal reading sessions is we usually get a peice of paper with some information on it and then afetr we read it, we a get a sheet that we have to fill out.

Then after that, we discuss the information sheet in our group and not only that, we try and help each other on the words or sentences or even paragraphs that we dont really get.

Some of the strategies that we have learnt are the following • chunking • text to text connections • world to text connections • self to text connections • feel • smell • taste • see • hear •checking our answers • changing our answers • evidence •claryfying • questions and heaps more

The language we use is text to self connections such as • "I think..." • "I predict..." • "I am agreeing with..." • " I wonder if...." • "I predict....because/why" • "I am disareeing with...."

I have improved in comprehension, making lots of predictions, cheking my answers, changing my answers, trying to figure out the words that I am having trouble with and giving my evidence to my questions, answers and predictions.

In reading hour, I have enjoyed the following • writting in our little blue book • writting on note pads • trying to figure out what a word means • talking to my reading group • have a reading conference with my teacher • trying to reach my goals