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Subject: Fiction for fun

Author:
L.M

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Date Posted: 10:54:14 01/27/11 Thu

Hello, I am a teaching assistant from Coventry and I'm interested in learning support.
After reading about the 'garden rule' in the course book and the section in the text book about supported reading, I have set up a fiction for fun session. I sit with a child and together we fill in the 'What I like to read' sheet which I altered to suit the age group I work with. Once or twice a week we sit together and look at a fiction book purely for pleasure, focusing on the story, pictures and childs interests and following the golden rule. The child can take the book home if they wish and I have advised parents about what to do. I find this particularly useful to increase the child's desire to read, their self confidence and their willingness to read with me and other without feeling they are being judged or criticised.

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