Reading

=**READING** =

I then asked my student to read to me from one of the books that he enjoys reading at home. He picked the book, "Brown Bread and Honey"

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We then read the book that i had picked out earlier, called "Busy Day". I chose this book because the children in the book are of the same age that my student was, and therefore, the student can relate to them. There were also mentions of sharks, monsters, and robots that i knew from prior experience with the child, would engage him. Before commencing, i asked the child what their first impressions of the book were, just by looking at the cover, to try and gather what preconceived knowledge the child had about the text content.



The child replied with: "//Going to far away places? Going to an island. Maybe he has an umbrella so if the water splashes he can just have the umbrella."//

After reading, i asked the child the following questions about the book:

__LITERAL QUESTIONS:__
What food did Annie’s mum think that monsters liked to eat? Peanut butter sandwiches and hamburgers

What colour was the planet Jack and Annie landed on? Red, but it was really their bed

What food did Jack think that robots liked to eat? Nuts



__**INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS:**__
Do you think Annie’s mum really believes in monsters? No. Because they’re not really true, but there is a show called monsters Inc

Who was the distant voice that the children kept hearing? Their mum

What were the children really bouncing on? What was the planet? Bed



__INFERENTIAL QUESTIONS__
Where would you go in your imagination? I’d go onto this no gravity world but it has air, it has trees, red grass, white sky, yellow trees, there’s one monster, he’s very small, like gray matter on Ben 10.