Reading, BLIC 1

Reading Goals for Year 1.   You will practice reading strategies and reading fluency whilst reading on your own and in a group and when listening to the teacher read. We will use the Oxford Reading Tree for individual reading homework and supplement this in class with phonics and word pattern work.

 

Teaching should stimulate students' interest in reading and writing. In teaching, the students meet and learn about literature from different times and different parts of the world. Instruction will also help students develop knowledge of various forms of non-fiction.

In the meeting with different types of texts, students are given the opportunity to develop their own language, their own identity and their understanding of the outside world. Teaching should help strengthen students' awareness of and confidence in their own language and communication skills.

Core Content

• reading strategies to understand and interpret texts and to adjust the reading for the text form and content.
• Listening and retelling in various conversational situations.
• Narrative texts and poetic texts for children from different times and different parts of the world. Texts in the form of rhymes, chants, songs, (picture books,) chapter books, poetry, plays, fairy tales and myths.
• Narrative texts message, structure and content. How a narrative text can be organized with introduction, events and conclusion.
• Some fictional children's book authors and illustrators.
• Descriptive and explanatory texts, including factual texts for children, and how their content can be organized.