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Reading VIPERS to support reading. Supplementary resources can be found here.
VIPERS Stems - Question Stems Pack.pdfDeveloping Reading Fluency
Developing Reading Fluency
VIPERS is an acronym to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum. They are the key areas which we feel children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.
VIPERS stands for
Vocabulary
Inference
Prediction
Explanation
Retrieval
Sequence or Summarise
The 6 domains focus on the comprehension aspect of reading and not the mechanics: decoding, fluency, prosody etc. As such, VIPERS is not a reading scheme but rather a method of ensuring that teachers ask, and students are familiar with, a range of questions. They allow the teacher to track the type of questions asked and the children’s responses to these which allows for targeted questioning afterwards.
Reading Café
Reading Café
Mr. D Super Tutor offers group guided reading sessions for groups of 5 or more students. These group reading sessions aim to use a core text to engage and motivate readers. Expert, targeted questioning is employed to develop key reading skills such as inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summarizing as well as reading fluency and a deepening and widening of rich vocabulary through use of the question VIPERS.
What is Guided Reading?
Guided reading is informed by Vygotsky’s (1978) Zone of Proximal Development and Bruner’s (1986) notion of scaffolding, informed by Vygotsky’s research. The practice of guided reading is based on the belief that the optimal learning for a reader occurs when they are assisted by an educator, or expert ‘other’, to read and understand a text with clear but limited guidance. Guided reading allows students to practise and consolidate effective reading strategies.
Which books will we be focusing on?
Below you can view the core texts that are being used during our current Reading Cafés.
Detective Dog Nell by Julia Donaldson (5+ years old)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr (5+ years old)
Wild by Emily Hughes (6+ years old)
Heartwood Hotel by Kallie George (7+ years old)
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (7+ years old)
The Fate of Fausto by Oliver Jeffers (7+ years old)
Interested in seeing how our lessons are structured? Take a look at the example lesson plans below.
Interested in seeing how our lessons are structured? Take a look at the example lesson plans below.
Scheme_of_Learning.pdfArthur and the Golden Rope by Joe Todd-Stanton
Scheme_of_Learning.pdfKaspar Prince of Cats by Michael Morpurgo
Scheme_of_Learning.pdfPages and Co Tilly and the Book Wanderers
Scheme_of_Learning.pdfPippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
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