Reading

During Term One, our Year Four learners will have the opportunity to apply and engage in various Reading strategies and track their thinking whilst reading, through making “Thinking Tracks” with their ‘Good Fit’ books. “Thinking Tracks” are student thoughts and ideas that are recorded before, during, and after reading. The students will stop, think, and respond to the text by jotting down their individual questions, connections, reactions, opinions, inferences, and anything else that would come into their minds. 

Our students will explore a variety of ways to engage the reader through different narratives. They will be analysing different texts, such as comparing memoirs and recounts. They will determine the purpose of memoirs and how they are created through figurative language and meaningful memories that connect to their emotions. We will build a deeper understanding of the author’s purpose and strategies they have used in these text types, to effectively transfer this to their own writing pieces and support their own authorship in their writing. 

To support your child with their reading at home, here are a few strategies:

• Ask your child what reading strategy or CAFE goal they have used whilst reading their ‘Good Fit Book’.
• Ask your child to note their ‘Thinking Tracks’ whilst reading their ‘Good Fit Book’.
• Ask your child questions about the books that they are reading. ‘What’s the problem in the story?’ ‘What is the main idea?’ ‘Can you retell the story to me?’ ‘What do you think the character is feeling and why do you think this?’ Etc.
• Ask your child about their CAFE reading goal and the strategies they have been utilising to achieve their goal.