The reading journey - Practical 2 - Material for your reading instruction

About the Course 

You are about to engage in the second part of the training course, The Reading Journey – Practical work.

In this part, we will go through Materials for Your Reading Instruction, where you will learn more about materials and exercises for your reading instruction.

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Course content

Material for your reading instruction

• Introduction to Material for Your Reading Instruction
  
• Reading Instruction and Lessons
• Introductions
• Recommendations
• Time to Explore!

 

 

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Introduction to Material for Your Reading Instruction

You will now receive an overview of the layout of the Reading Instruction page.

The purpose is for you to feel at home on the page and be able to use it to plan your reading instruction!

In this course, you will see images from our portal. Some of the pages may look slightly different today compared to when the course was created. This is only due to design updates, the content remains the same. In fact, it may even have been further developed, so you can find even more useful resources on the page.

We have divided the overview as follows:

1. Reading Instruction and Lessons: How to navigate our reading
instruction and how the layout works.
2. Introductions: Information about our recommendations for reading practice.
3. Recommendations: A selection of what Lexplore can offer.
4. Time to Explore: Now it's time to try it out yourself.

 

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Reading Instruction and Lessons

On the homepage of the portal, you select the Reading Instruction tab.

Filter by Key stage - Here, you can choose which grade levels you are looking for materials for: 

• Key stage 1-2
• Key stage 3
• Key stage 4
  
  
  

 

You will notice that some exercises, such as reading fluency exercises, are available for multiple grade levels.

In each age group, you can categorise the type of lesson you are looking for. We recommend that you conduct some lessons in a specific order, and we have numbered them accordingly. 

After selecting a category, you will arrive at the page with all the lessons and exercises. It's time to choose a lesson. 

For some lessons, there are templates or materials to print.

Hover over the image at the top and click on it to access a template or material you can print. 

Now you know how to navigate and find all the lessons and exercises!

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Introductions

On the Reading Instruction homepage, you will also find introductions.

The introductions make it easy to get started and use all the materials!

• Reading Fluency - Explains how to conduct structured reading instruction that
  develops all students' decoding and fluency.
• Reading Strategies - Lessons and exercises for working with reading strategies.
• Language Comprehension - Explains what language development teaching entails.
• Balanced Reading Instruction - Provides more information about balanced instruction and how the model can enhance your students' reading and your teaching.
  
  


All introductions are designed to inspire your reading instruction!

 

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Recommendations

You'll find various recommendations at the bottom of the reading instruction homepage.  

• The Year with Lexplore: The guide explains how systematic work with reading can function. 
• Reading for pleasure: The guide emphasizes the importance of fostering a reading-for-pleasure culture in schools through collaboration with the reading community. It explores the personal and diverse reading journeys of individuals, highlighting the need to provide every child with the tools and opportunities to develop a love for reading.
• Reading schemes and Lexplore: The guide highlights different readability measures and frameworks like Flesch Reading Ease Test, Lexile, and Guided Reading Levels. It shows how Lexplore scores can be adjusted to improve the match between students' reading abilities and text complexities.
• Reading support: The guide underscores the critical role of early identification in addressing reading difficulties among children, offering teachers a systematic approach to differentiate and support struggling students.
• Recovery curriculum guide to reading: This guide is about the importance of understanding children's current reading levels and providing support tailored to their needs, utilizing assessment tools like Lexplore Analytics. It also highlights the significance of high-quality phonics instruction and fostering a love of reading through diverse materials, while addressing the emotional well-being of children as essential for successful learning.
• Summer reading: In the guide, you will receive exercises to send home with the students over the summer break to maintain their reading.
  
  

 

 

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Time to Explore!

Now you have seen what is available for your reading instruction, it is time to explore.

We recommend that you log in and review the material directly.

Remember, that you can access the page via the insight portal. 

 

Feel free to choose one or two exercises to try out in your class.

For example, you can choose one from each category:

• Reading Fluency
• Language Comprehension
• Reading Strategies
  
  


It is advisable to do this together with your colleagues. You can each choose different lessons and thus prepare a few together and benefit from what your colleagues have ready.

We at Lexplore wish you good luck with your
reading instruction!

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Well done ⭐