Reading – knowledge building

Overview 

In this video, a Foundation teacher demonstrates how she builds knowledge about a topic to assist her students to comprehend a text that is read aloud to them.  

Who is this video for? 

Foundation teachers; school leaders 

What will you learn? 

  • How to build students’ knowledge before reading aloud to students. 
  • How to build vocabulary knowledge related to a topic. 
  • How to develop activities to support students to connect to the topic and use vocabulary related to the topic. 

Related content  

Explore the Literacy Hub’s 12 free digital texts to read to and with your students, with accompanying teacher resources related to the Big Six components of literacy.  


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Source

Teaching AC English

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