Literacy across the Curriculum


Reading

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

Joseph Brodsky

Reading is a vital skill that all students need to help them pass any examination. Reading is relevant to every single subject area! At Manor College we have the Learning Resource Centre (commonly known as the LRC) – this facility is jam packed with all kinds of books for our students to enjoy. Our librarian Mrs Hutchinson will also order in any books that our students request.

There are four types of reading that students at Manor College use on a daily basis:

Continuous

This is the first type of reading you learn and involves reading a text from the beginning to the end.

Scanninng

You use this type of reading when you are looking for something in particular in a text – this could be a key word or date for example.

Skimming

This type of reading is used when you quickly read a text to get the main ideas.

Close

This is the hardest type of reading and is closely linked to analysis. Students at Manor College often refer to ’reading between the lines’. This is the type of reading where students have to work out the answer from a text by looking at a deeper layer of meaning.

Please find below the different areas that students’ reading is assessed on:

AF2 Being able to understand, select and retrieve information from texts, using quotations.

AF3 Being able to deduce and infer information from texts: to 'read between the lines' and being able to work things

AF4 To identify and comment on the structure of a text.

AF5 To explain and comment on writers' use of language.

AF6 To identify and comment on writers' purposes, viewpoints and consider how texts impact readers.

AF7 To be able to relate texts to their social, cultural and historical traditions.

Top tips for top readers:

• Encourage your child to read for at least thirty minutes a date. It has been proven that reading for thirty minutes can have a significant impact on the progress of your child in school.

• When reading a text, ask your child to underline any effective vocabulary that they have discovered. If they are unaware of the meaning of a word find out the meaning together by using a paper or online dictionary.

• Ask your child to explain how they feel about a text they are reading and to provide textual evidence to back up their points.

• If practicing for examinations, advise your child to closely read the exam questions and underline the key words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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