PHONICS AND COMPREHENSION COACHING

Phonics and Comprehension Coaching notes for each book provide before-, during- and afterreading guidance, across phonics and comprehension. Teachers are supported to: y embed phonic knowledge with students via practice of newly introduced GPCs and highfrequency words, y explicitly teach and model comprehension strategies, incorporating the use of metacognitive ‘think aloud’ prompts y monitor students’ use of comprehension skills during reading using provided comprehension questions y continue students’ phonic and comprehension skill development using the included afterreading activities.

OXFORD READING FOR COMPREHENSION

Finn Fits In Phonics focus

Focus GPCs: j, v, w, x High-frequency words (decodable): will

Comprehension focus

Comprehension strategy: Infer

Think aloud

What clues in the text help me explain what I am reading?

Activate prior knowledge

Read the title. Ask students:

• Where do you think Finn might be

Monitor comprehension during reading

Use the questions below during your small group reading session to develop students’ strategies for comprehension, based on the Oxford Comprehension Skills Progression Framework.

Page 3

What does Finn do after he says goodbye to his dad?

Pages 4–5

What do you think the teacher means by ‘in the back’?

Pages 6–7

Why do you think the author has chosen to include music notes near the bell speaker?

Pages 8–9

What is another word you could use instead of ‘jog ? Who are Jack and Jill?

Practical activity

Pages 10–11

What is Kev s job?

Pages 12–13

List three types of punctuation shown on these two pages.

Page 15

How do you think Finn is feeling? How can you tell?

End-of-book

Retell the beginning, middle and end of the story in your own words.

This suggested productive task synthesises what students have experienced and understood from reading this text.

• Ask students to draw a story map to retell the story in the correct order. Suggest that they can write some words explaining their drawings. Encourage students to share their story maps and discuss them.

Monitor phonics & comprehension after reading

Ask students to complete the Activity Sheet that accompanies this text to monitor their development of phonic and comprehension skills. The Activity Sheet for this text can be found on Oxford Owl. www.oxfordowl.com.au