Teaching Reading in Junior Primary Settings

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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