Once children are confident using the language orally, they must start reading in order to fully master English. Learning to read in English, though, is quite different.
Since the children can already read in Catalan and Spanish, they can activate different strategies to be able to get the meaning of different messages. One of these strategies is being able to find similarities between words that help them infer the meaning.
To help them develop this strategy and stress the importance of reading, at school we have distributed posters around the classroom that encourage reading for pleasure. The children had the sentences in Catalan and, working in pairs, they had to match them to the correct poster. After finishing the activity, they explained the strategies they used to find the solution. They all agreed that it was easier than it seemed: “si hay palabras casi iguales”.
This sense of achievement creates a positive attitude towards reading in English for pleasure, an activity we do once a week with the “big ones”.
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