Collaborative+Strategic+Reading

Collaborative Strategic Reading
       Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is providing students with strategies and practice to implement reading strategies in the class room with the support of peers and the teacher. It is most appropriate for years 3 to 6 where small groups can be formed and discussions and opinions developed about a particular text that is relevant to class and assessment pieces. It can be used for younger years, but a whole class approach with constant teacher input is more appropriate rather than small groups of students thinking independently.

CSR involves four main strategies which the students will progress through in their groups (assuming they are in years 3 to 6): 1 - Preview - which is to create a background to the text and relate the text to prior knowledge 2 - Click and clunk - understanding complicated words 3 - Get the gist - make a general understanding of the texts main focus and ideas 4 - Wrap up - summarising what was read, and picking out the most important parts  The teachers role is to introduce a topic and the text and group students into appropriate learning groups where they will use the strategies and create discussions together. The teacher will also provide assistance where needed in the discussions and try to add thought provoking questions and opened ended questions to the groups.

Teacher Vision, (2000), Teaching Strategies for Using Materials in an Inclusive Classroom. Accessed on []
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