Strategic reading action
Watch an expert literacy practitioner work with Year 5 and 6 students, modelling for a number of teachers how to improve students' comprehension strategies.
Resource information
Here an expert literacy practitioner works with Year 5 and 6 students at Wyndham Park Primary School. She models for a number of teachers how to improve students' comprehension strategies. One of these is to use 'Strategic reading action' which enables the student to think more deeply about character in a text.
At Wyndham Park Primary School, the Principal and leadership team support high quality professional learning opportunities for colleagues. One strategy involves expert mentoring to improve student learning in literacy. The teacher is able to demonstrate general literacy approaches and principles for teaching students to read a range of texts more purposefully. She also demonstrates how working with smaller groups can benefit and extend students who are ready to progress to higher literacy outcomes.
Discussion questions:
- What are the benefits of learning from an expert mentor?
- How does expert mentoring lead to improvements in student learning?
- What aspects of your teaching would benefit from expert mentoring?
