OECS USAID ELP Professional Development Foundational Document on Early Grade Reading
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VIEWTips for Teachers
- Reading is an essential activity for educated people
- Get students reading. It doesn’t matter what they read; just that they are reading.
- Provide students with the opportunity to read silently and to each other.
- Literacy is about reading; not about definitions
- Teachers hold the key to success in reading; work with another teacher or with reading specialists
- Build lessons from material that students know and relate to
- Engaging in your own Professional Development to enhance the quality of instruction is fundamental to improving reading levels
- Use best practices to introduce students to reading that is fun and enjoyable
- Utilise a variety of activities to engage students in reading: Literacy sessions, reading clubs, field outings, reading corners, storytelling, library visits, acting out stories etc.
- Showcase the sharing of best practices within OECS
- Connect with literacy specialists and ELP Coordinators in your area to guide you
- Focus on child-centred learning activities.
- Implement the revised formative assessment and summative assessment in your classroom so that you know the reading level of every student in your class. Differentiate instruction based on this knowledge
- Making reading fun is critical
- Bring joy to the classroom
