4 Summary

This unit has focused on your role in enabling your students to become enthusiastic, confident and reflective readers of a range of texts within and outside the school. Your role in modelling pleasurable reading is vital to your students’ positive engagement in this activity.

This unit suggests a number of activities that you can use with increasing frequency to support reading development in the classroom. These include book talk, which provides a valuable opportunity for students to share their reactions to what they read, as well as paired reading, where students can discuss what they read together. As with many activities, reading is a skill that improves with practice, and your students are more likely to practise if they enjoy reading and talking about the texts they read.