High Impact Strategies for Struggling Readers - Summary, Yrs 3-6

About this teaching resource

This comprehensive resource provides teachers with high-impact strategies to support struggling readers in Years 3 to 6, focusing on creating an engaging, supportive, and inclusive reading environment. Key highlights include:

1. Setting Up an Inclusive Environment: Cultivate a classroom where students feel valued, using inclusive seating, visual aids, and community-building read-alouds. Create a culture of book exploration and foster a love for reading by integrating decoding, fluency, and comprehension.
2. Curated Book Collections and Access: Ensure struggling readers have access to "just-right" books that align with their skill level, helping build confidence. A well-organized classroom library with diverse, high-interest books fosters independent, enjoyable reading experiences.
3. Daily Read-Alouds and Book Selection: Model fluent reading through daily read-alouds, exposing students to varied genres and text structures. Provide strategies for choosing engaging, appropriate texts and support struggling readers in exploring content beyond their decoding level, building vocabulary and comprehension.
4. Structured Reading Workshop and Feedback: Implement a structured Reading Workshop model with personalised practice and feedback sessions. Use modeling, mini-rehearsals, and collaborative reflection to reinforce reading strategies and promote independent reading growth.
5. Additional Targeted Strategies: Encourage re-reading, introduce literary devices, use paired reading for fluency practice, and teach "scoop & phrase" techniques to support phrasing and comprehension development.

This resource empowers teachers with practical, adaptable strategies to foster literacy and a love for reading among struggling readers.