Today started a form of Peer Tutoring in school called paired reading with the P5 and P7 children. This has been a programme that we have trialled in previous years and proved very successful in raising confidence in reading, questioning skills, phonics and social relationships.
These are the key elements:
Older pupils are paired with a younger pupil from their reading ages. Some pairings may have to be a triad due to numbers.
The reading cycle alternates between the tutor P7 and the tutee P5 reading together and reading alone. The tutor helps the tutee gain confidence by reading at a speed just behind the reading of the tutee. The tutors are encouraged to read with intonation and expression to encourage tutee to do likewise.
Questioning will happen before reading the book, during the reading and after reading. To help the children with this there are question mats that they can make use of. The questions on the Question Mats are differentiated depending on the reading ability of the pupils.
We will run this programme from this week until easter and hopefully see an increase in reading ages, confidence, and social interaction.
Mrs Turtle
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