Library lessons reading skills SOL (part 2)

Aims: This scheme of work in comprised of 12 lessons which intend to promote both a love of reading and a foundation of skills required to be a successful reader:

1. Setting a purpose for reading
2. Determining the meaning of words and phrases
3. Understanding the main idea
4. Skimming and scanning
5. Identifying the writer's purpose and point of view
6. Make links between ideas in a text
7. Critical reasoning
8. Inference and deduction
9. Visualisation
10. Summarising information
11. Cause and effect
12. Types of language


Lessons all follow the same structure:
• Learning objective/ outcome
• Starter activity
• Five minutes to change books etc
• 20 minutes silent independent reading
• Teacher questioning/review
• Task linked to LO (20 mins)
• Plenary
Use of literacy centre managers:
• General support and admin during the lesson
• Withdrawal of identified students for 1:1 reading

Each lesson has a student help sheet.
Each student has their own resource booklet.