English Home Language - Term 3 - Week 9

Shared reading is a collaborative reading experience where the teacher and students read a text together. It encourages participation and helps students develop comprehension skills. Prediction is the skill of making educated guesses about what will happen next in a text based on clues provided by the author. This week, we will focus on how to use our prior knowledge and context clues to make predictions about a story.

Consider the opening paragraph of a story that describes a dark, stormy night with a character looking out the window. Students can predict that something mysterious or scary might happen. For instance, they might say, 'I think a ghost will appear because it’s dark and stormy.' This shows how we can use the setting to inform our predictions.

In small groups, students will read a short text together. After reading each paragraph, they will pause and discuss what they think will happen next. The teacher will circulate to facilitate discussions and encourage students to support their predictions with evidence from the text. For example, if a character is introduced as 'sneaky,' students might predict that this character will cause trouble.

Students will choose a different short text and write down their predictions before reading it fully. They should write at least three sentences, using correct punctuation and spacing. After reading the text, they will reflect on their predictions, noting which were correct and which were not, and why. This will help them understand the importance of making informed predictions.

• Reading alone in silence
• Reading together with a teacher
• Listening to an audiobook
• Reading only for homework

Answer: Reading together with a teacher

Shared reading involves collaborative reading, typically with a teacher guiding the discussion.

• It helps improve vocabulary.
• It enhances comprehension skills.
• It makes reading more fun.
• It is not important.

Answer: It enhances comprehension skills.

Making predictions helps readers engage with the text and understand it better.

Answer: A character's emotions or the setting can provide clues.

Emotions and settings often hint at future events in a story.

• Ignore the text
• Read to see if your prediction was correct
• Write it down and forget about it
• Discuss it with no one

Answer: Read to see if your prediction was correct

After making a prediction, it is important to read further to confirm or revise your thoughts.

Answer: By using evidence from the text.

Supporting predictions with evidence helps validate the guesses made.

• Question mark
• Exclamation mark
• Comma
• Full stop

Answer: Full stop

A full stop is used to indicate the end of a declarative sentence.

• A character's name
• The title of the book
• Descriptive words about the setting
• The page number

Answer: Descriptive words about the setting