Teaching Reading in Junior Primary Settings

Teaching reading in junior primary settings requires developing interest in children through story summaries and engaging activities. Choosing the right books is crucial for grabbing their attention and fostering creativity and imagination. Learn about the significant aspects of teaching reading in junior primary settings and how to develop interest in children for reading.

ENGLISH PROJECT FOR
JUNIOR PRIMARY
SETTING
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Contents
Shared Reading................................................................................................................................3
Guided Reading...............................................................................................................................6
Sounds and letters rationale with examples.....................................................................................9
Summary of significant learning about teaching reading in junior primary settings....................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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Shared Reading
Book chosen or shared reading is “Little Polar Bear”. The main reason behind choosing
this book is because English used in this book is extremely simple and with lots of images which
makes it much easier for children to understand. This book will further give information to
students about what North Pole is, what type of place it is, what type of animals live there and
how they survive (Underwood and Farrington-Flint, 2015). This book will further help children
to enhance their vocabulary and images present within book will help in enhancement of visual
literacy of children. Other than this, another reason for which this story has been chosen is
because it will help in developing interest of children as such kind of story.
Key idea, word, focus, quote, or
concept
Responses
Day 1 Story type, comprehension of
story, different stages of story
Day 1 I will be providing comprehension of
the story which will help children in
understanding what type of story they are
reading. This will further help children in
understanding different stages of story,
which will eventually develop keen interest
of children in the story, they will start
participating and interacting for making
predictions in the story. Therefore day 1
children will be explained about the story,
about whom the story is and what is the
main theme of the story or idea behind the
story.
Children can be asked questions such as:
 What do you understand by the title of
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the story?
 Who do you think is the main character
of the story?
Day 2 identification of all the main
characters within the story and
introduction of the story
Day 2 children will be explained about main
characters of the story and a short
introduction bout the story will be provided
to children. This story is about a little polar
bear named Lars and his Father. Other than
this, there are other characters in this story
such as Henry the Hippopotamus, Marcus
the Eagle, and other animals
Children can be asked questions such as:
 How many important supporting
characters are there in the story?
 Which supporting character played an
important role in story?
Day 3 Exploration of vocabulary words whenever a vocabulary word or a typical
word would appear in reading, children will
be asked to read it a loud and for correct
pronunciation first of all I will pronounce
the word and then will ask children to
pronounce it so that their vocabulary will
improve and they will learn ways of
pronouncing a word properly which will
eventually enhance their vocabulary.
children will be free to ask any type of
question such as: meaning of a particular
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word, why similar type of words are used in
different ways in different sentences. I will
not only focus upon pronunciation but will
also explain meaning of every word and
ways in which use of a word in different
sentences have different meaning.
Day 4 words or sentence formation,
different types of sentences
Today children will be asked to focus upon
ways in which sentence formation has taken
place within narrative teat and ways in
which one sentence is connected to another
sentence in an accurate manner. Children
will be asked to focus upon every sentence
and ways in which every sentence is
connected in order to form a meaning.
Children will further be asked to look at
sentences and ways in which those
sentences have been formed. Lastly, they
will be explained different kinds of
sentences such narrative sentences,
declarative sentences etc.
Children can be asked questions such as:
 What type of sentences where used in
the story mostly?
Day 5 mapping of story, story formation,
enhancing vocabulary
children will be provided with a brief
summary of the story rom beginning when
Lars goes fishing with his father to the end
when he returns home with a whale.
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In order to enhance learning of children they
will be asked to make their own story in a
step- by- step manner, they will be asked to
write and pronounce different kinds of
words learnt by then within the story. This
will help me in understanding whether
children have learned new words and learnt
ways in which those words are pronounced
or not.
Children can be asked questions such as:
 Do you think any sentence in the story
was repeating and was helping in
another sentence formation?
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Guided Reading
The chosen book for guided reading is “I dare u”, in order to share guided reading and its
primary reason behind choosing this book because of provided the brief knowledge of English
language. Children will understand the concept of letter, meaning, and sound knowledge. This
kind of book is strongly emphasis on the day of week which will help children with improve
their English language (Flint and et.al., 2019). Initially, it is very challenging for young children
but it may easily understand the knowledge of literacy. Furthermore, young learner children will
easily explore their knowledge and try to create own sentence and start using different words on
regular basis.
Key idea, word, quote, description Response
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or concept
Story type, phases of
story, comprehension of
story
For this reading session, it
has chosen book named “ I
dare u” will read them
which reading level of 7.
Children will be sitting into
next to each other and try to
establish a connection with
reading books. This book
has been covered all
essential information about
the story of tiger and
money. These are two main
characters, identify the role
of both animals. Once all
children are seated, I will
start introduce I dare u book
to children and will ask
them to predict what are
significant role of books. It
might be looking its cover
page which become so
much interesting. In
preview phase, I will ask
some questions related toe
illustration of book.
In response or view, I will try to use
explicit teaching approach so that
every children will participate into
session and ask more question
about words, concept and idea of
book. After successfully completed
the reading, I will ask some
question with children and then
identify point of view. Furthermore,
I will discuss with children in
regards of new words. Here, focus
on the dialogue box in book such as
“That’s easy “. Many children will
be asked the meaning of this word.
Every one excited to be continued
reading, means while ask children
to look at what phase of money ask
with tiger in regards of climbing.
What are expressions of tiger at that
time. These are completely
expressing the viewpoints.
In review phase, I will interact with
children in order to find the actual
sequence in which how money win
– I dare u. I will ask to write some
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Children will be asked a lot
of questions in regards of
characters like money, tiger.
At the time of book
storytelling, children ask a
question about “cross”
word. This kind of word is
used in the story but I will
share correct meaning with
children and share their
perception. On the other
hand, there are different
words used in dialogue box
to comprehend the image
shown “I dare U”. Why this
kind of word is used. In the
preview section, Children
will be excited to get
familiar with some link and
help them to interact with
statement, text.
important keywords that would be
used by money.
Before asking, I will divide two
different group and task children to
make sentence by using key words.
On the basis of discussion, it has
been identified that Children can
build knowledge or vocabulary and
understand the perception of story.
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Sounds and letters rationale with examples
From different reading perception towards sound and letter which means that represent the
understanding, meaning. There are systematic and predictable relationship between written
letters and spoken sound. During storytelling, I will focus on the phonics instruction which
helps the children to learn the relationships between letter of written language and sound of
spoken language.
Once of the most important skills for children to develop knowledge and skills, where they can
easily recognise letters and sound. As per consider the Alphabetic principle, which kind of
notion that speech sounds can be connected to the letters in the form of predicable manner
(Borghi and et.al., 2019). for Example- I dare u book should contain different kind of letter,
children need to understand the speech sound, make a words, changing the letters on the basis
of sounds or words.
Being a teacher, I will not consider as easy tasks to handle young children because everyone has
a different observation. As opposed to many other language. English is one of the language that
has many different sounds than letters. It means that different kind of letter make more than one
sound. For Example- The Letter E, can be stand for as many eight different sounds in the
English language. just used the sentence in Book: “ I dare you to hand on that branch over the
river”.
Because of root of English come from different languages, so that it is little difficult to
understand the different sounds that can be spelled in multiple ways. For Example- OW, OU,
and F and GH. There are different words used in the books which may represent the multiple
sounds but spelled differently such as bear and bare.
The Vowel sounds can produce alone with lot of confusion for young children. in most of cases,
teacher will try to away from teaching a sound knowledge (Wærp, 2020). At initial stage, it is
an essential part to provide the information about 19 different vowel sounds, only fix 6 letters
need to spell them with different manner.
There are plenty of different activities when teacher will engage with children and help them to
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learn letter and sound properly. So as, it will try to encourage or motivate children start perform
workbook tasks. As they can make a better way to enjoy learning of letter and its sound. Here
are some activities try in the classroom session.
Begin With Books (Guide reading and shared reading) - Initially, I will start the reading books
such as I dare u, polar bear. In this way, I will try to encourage the children for improving their
understanding. Reading to children is one of the best way to recognize the connection between
sound and letter. In this way, it help to print their own shared picture books. Within story books,
there are lot of alphabets used in the sentence which become useful for children to understand
their meaning (Awale, 2019). During reading session, children will recognize the picture of
words that start with particular letter name. in this way, this kind of feature will develop
curiosity among children’s to grasp more idea, assumption of belief towards concept.
Provide a lots of letters- many children notice the actual shape of letter because it help to build
a more understanding and easily recognise it. At the time of doing puzzles or use different letter
shaped cookie cutter in damp sand, magnetic letter and block allows children to explore their
ability in term of sound-letter connection. This kind of activities will support for children to
understand the actual concept of letter and sound. Reading a book or story is one of the best
approach because there are including a lot of letter and sound variations. It may always support
for children to acquire more information.
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Tasks Activities
Task-1 Plan to make improve vocabulary of
children: - In this task, I will focus on the
vocabulary improvement so that I will try
to give new words for every children. in
this way, they can find actual meaning,
concepts.
 Reading books
 Letter Puzzle
Task-2 Encourage children’s to participate into
reading session:- in this task, I will inspire
or motivate the children’s where they can
tell their work story and then convert into
written formats. In this way, it will help for
children to improve their reading or writing
skills.
 Story telling session
 Create visualization by
imagination
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Summary of significant learning about teaching reading in junior primary
settings
Teaching reading in junior primary setting helped me in learning many things about teaching to
junior primary settings. First of all, I learnt it is extremely important to generate interest of
children in reading because without it they won’t pay attention in learning new words, ways in
which story is delivered etc. in order to develop interest of children they should first of all be
provided with summary of the story for explanation of what the story is all about. This will help
in development of keen interest of children within the story. They will further participant in
development predicting things in between of the story. I have learnt that providing with a
summary of story can not only help in grabbing attention of children but it further helps in
development of their creativity, imagination and thinking i.e., after hearing a story summary
helps them in imagining things that can help in development of creative thinking. About
teaching reading in junior primary settings, I have further learnt that it is extremely important to
choose an appropriate book for reading to children because if the book is not interesting then
children will not focus upon the story and reading and it will become difficult for teacher to
grab their attention and teach reading to them. Choice of book for reading directly help in
grabbing their attention so that they take interest in reading and can learn for forming their own
story.
About teaching reading in junior primary settings I have further learnt that children majorly
require to pay attention of ways in which a sentence is formed and ways in which formation of
sentence can change a meaning of a paragraph. In order to make children learning sentence
formation reading a story of their interest can directly help because reading a story will help
children in understand how to form a sentence with a proper meaning. Reading an interesting
book of children’s choice will help in making children understand different types of sentences
that can be formed, in what type of story what type of sentences should be used.
Vocabulary of Children is Weak
I will recognise the children’s at the time of reading books, some have a poor vocabulary
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knowledge, which may be increased the high risk or threat of weakness in English language. At
some point, children’s have been difficulties in reading comprehension, which will directly
impact on the achievement. I will try to focus on the teaching, target both groups of children in
regards of vocabulary knowledge for taught about new words. That’s why, it will be focused on
the reading books and encourage children’s to give equal participation in classroom session. It
has been significantly better way to comprehension of text containing large number of English
words. Afterwards, it will be demonstrated that they can acquire a proper strategy
independently.
The weakness of student’s vocabularies was common in regards English language so that it
would be required to focus on the reading session. In order to inspire or motivate children’s for
book reading. On the basis of guided reading and shared reading, it has provided the best
opportunity for children to improve their vocabulary. Nowadays, there are large culture
certainly is not helping the children in term of nourishment of good reading habits. Therefore,
children face a situation of weak or poor vocabularies that were shock for everyone. So as, it is
an essential aspect of teacher and student to establish a better coordination between each other.
The trust of observation is familiar to teacher because they are mainly focused on the children’s
skill and ability. The most reliability of teacher is to encourage children start the reading books,
other reading materials. in order to recognise the words, letter and meaning of sentences. As if
now, I will always concern about the vocabulary of children at the time of reading session in the
classroom so that it will support to improve the concept of words.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Awale, R., 2019. They Dare Disturb the Universe.
Borghi, A.M., and et.al., 2019. Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in
abstract concepts. Physics of life reviews. 29. pp.120-153.
Flint, A.S., and et.al., 2019. Literacy in Australia: Pedagogies for engagement. John Wiley &
Sons.
Underwood, J.D. and Farrington-Flint, L., 2015. Learning and the E-Generation. John Wiley &
Sons.
Wærp, H.H., 2020. The Polar Bear in Nordic Literature for Children and Young Adults. In The
Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults (pp. 71-85). Routledge.
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