What is responsive teaching? Learning to read is a social process. Children start to learn at home and continue their learning in school and in the community. By responding to readers’ needs, we are supporting their growing independence. Much like the way a trade can be learned through a process of apprenticeship, students learn to read by engaging in reading with people who have already mastered it. Being responsive means helping readers to focus on what they’re doing, building confidence, guiding and modelling how an expert reader would do something. It involves showing the many ways to understand texts, such as thinking aloud and asking questions such as “Does this make sense?”
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