Explain How It May Be Used To Encourage Pupils To Participate In Shared Reading And Writing Activities

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(1) Encouraging pupils to participate in shared reading and writing activities. The teaching assistant could read to the pupils on a daily basis, this will help pupils learn fluent sounds. This will also help pupils understand how sentences and text can make sense and learn when to pause for full stops, question marks etc.
• Sharing books, stories, poems and rhymes to introduce pupils to different literary styles or genres including picture books. This also includes looking at other types of printed materials, e.g. newspapers, magazines, comics, signs. These will encourage pupils’ listening skills this will provide as well as introducing or extending their vocabulary.

(2) Playing a word game with an individual pupil.
• The teaching assistant will encourage pupils to participate in games to develop auditory and visual discrimination like sound lotto and guess the sound using
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On activity keep pupils on task or provide extra support for individual pupils.

(4) Directing computer-assisted learning programmes
• Using ICT. Using the internet for discussions and ideas. ICT can also be used to introduce information on topics and themes. Games or structured computer games where there is reading can help with literacy skills.

(5) Reading session: Encouraging shy or quiet pupils to participate in conversations and discussions. Pupils could try and guess what would happen from the line of text they have just read. This will help to see if any of the pupils who do not understand any of the text. The teaching assistant will be able to explain any parts that are not understood which will then help the pupil in the future to understand the type of

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