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Reading Strategies
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Resource Sheets
These Resource Sheets are designed to be used as teaching aids for use in group or
individual activities. It may be prudent to laminate them for repeated use.
Suggested Activities
2a)
Understand that effective readers draw on several sources of knowledge to
help them make sense of unfamiliar words.
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Discuss the various strategies of reading as a group. Encourage learners to use
those ones which best apply to them.
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Using a variety of texts e.g. official documents, letters, recipes, sports coverage,
ask learners to read the articles noting down any unfamiliar words. In pairs discuss
these words. Encourage learners to work out the meaning using reading strategies
discussed earlier. Use a dictionary to check the meaning. Ask learners to write at
least one sentence using that word.
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Encourage learners to create a personal collection or dictionary of all unfamiliar
words from their own reading, including definition and one sentence written by them
using the word in context so as to demonstrate their understanding.
2b)
Apply knowledge of sound and letter patterns and of structure of words,
including compound words, root words, grammatical endings, prefixes,
suffixes and syllable divisions to help decode words.
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As a group investigate and discuss the origins of compound words. Ask learners to
name some. Note these on the board. Aim to have at least one suggestion for
every letter of the alphabet.
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Using newspaper or magazine cuttings, ask learners to highlight all of the words
containing prefixes and suffixes. Highlight each in a different colour i.e. prefixes in
blue, suffixes in green.
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Using leaflets or advertisements, ask learners to circle all words with common roots.
Different coloured pens will be needed so each common root is represented by a
different colour.
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Resource Sheets 1 - 3 can be cut up and used as a pair activity. In a style similar
to ‘Snap’ each player starts with half the pack of cards. They take it in turns to lay
the cards face up. As soon as the two piles make a compound word players can
shout ‘word’ and the cards are then placed into their pile. The player with all the
cards at the end is the winner.
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Resource Sheets 1 - 3 can be used to play ‘The Memory Game’ as a pair or group
activity. Start the game with all of the cards spread facedown on the table. Players
take it in turns to turn over two cards. When the revealed cards make up a
compound word, the player keeps the cards and has another turn. If they fail to
make a match, the play moves to the next person. The winner is the person with
the most cards at the end.
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Resource Sheets 5, 6, 7 and 8 can be used for prefix/suffix matching exercises.
This can be combined with Resource Sheet 4 in order to identify the number of
syllables in the newly formed words.
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Resource Sheet 9 can be used for a group exercise. On the board, write out
various words containing a silent letter when read. The learners’ task is to identify
which is the silent letter. Hand out the letter cards ensuring each leaner has at least
3 cards. If a learner believes that they hold the silent letter for a word they then blutac that letter over the original. Discuss your findings including any errors as a
group. It may be useful to photocopy this Resource Sheet on to coloured paper for
ease of use on the whiteboard.
Resource sheets available in this section are:
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9)
Compound matching
Compound matching (continued)
Compound matching (continued)
Syllable cards
Root word cards
Root word cards (continued)
Prefixes
Prefixes and suffixes
Letter cards
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Resource Sheet 1
white
under
ever
ant
wheel
suit
card
cart
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Compound Matching
board
wear
more
eater
chair
case
board
horse
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Resource Sheet 2
black
frog
frost
help
ice
jig
knock
land
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Compound Matching
out
march
bite
line
cap
saw
out
mark
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Resource Sheet 3
mince
news
pen
quick
red
safe
tooth
wet
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Compound Matching
meat
paper
friend
sand
wood
guard
ache
lands
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Resource Sheet 4
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1
2
2
3
3
4
4
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Syllable Cards
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1
2
2
3
3
4
4
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
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Resource Sheet 5
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Root Word Cards
able
real
appear behave
capable clockwise
direct
fit
spell
lucky
fortune helpful
honest
match
stop
fiction
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Resource Sheet 6
popular
frost
take
count
similar
do
tidy
drip
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Root Word Cards
trust
mist
read
carry
like
fasten
wise
social
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Resource Sheet 7
dis
in
in
nonun
un
un
mis
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Prefixes
dis
dis
anti
nonun
un
un
mis
dis
dis
anti
nonun
un
un
mis
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Resource Sheet 8
mis
mis
de
ly
ly
ness
ful
y
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Prefixes and Suffixes
mis
mis
de
ly
ity
ness
less
y
mis
mis
al
ly
ity
ness
less
y
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Resource Sheet 9
a
f
k
p
u
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Letter Cards
b
g
l
q
v
c
h
m
r
w
d
i
n
s
x
e
j
o
t
y
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