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Into Connectors and Connectors actively develop oral languageskills and comprehension strategies for independent readers.

Students are engaged in reading and discussing short, topical texts that stimulate discussion.These texts have beenspecifically designed to be usedwith an approach based onReciprocal Reading, which iswell researched and proven toimprove comprehension.

Comprehension StrategiesFor each text, students explicitly use the comprehension strategies used in Reciprocal Reading: Predict Clarify Ask QuestionsSummarise

Preparing for Independent GroupsThere are two stages for the teacher before implementing Into Connectors and Connectors as anindependent group activity. These are explained in the Teachers’ Resource Books.

Student-led DiscussionsStudents work in peer groups of six.Prompts and guidance are given tostudents on pages 2 and 3.Each student picks a coloured‘smiley face’ icon. When a student’s coloured iconappears on a page, that student leads the discussion.

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Stage 1: The teacher ensures that students understand and can apply these strategies.

Stage 2: The discussion process is modelled until the teacher is confident students are able to work as an independent group.

Group DiscussionsThe double-page spreads in Into Connectors and Connectors titles have been specifically developed to be short and highly engaging contain some challenging vocabulary stimulate interest and discussionhave complementary visual support

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Pages from ‘Stolen Baby’ - Into Connectors Series 1

Pages from ‘Eye and Ear Pollution’ - Connectors Series 2

Looking BackAfter reading, students are invited to discuss and think about the whole book. A variety of graphic organisers are used in the Something to Think About section. These are available as Blackline Masters in the Teachers’ Resource book.

There are also suggestions for further investigation in the Want to Find Out More section.

Into Connectors provides a mixture of fiction and nonfiction titles at two levels.Each title has six self-contained double-page spreads. A differentstudent leads the discussion about each spread.

Into Connectors has specific student support

Into Connectors Recommended for Middle Primary independent readers

To support students as they discuss whatthey read, Into Connectors introducesthe Invisible Teacher (I.T.). The I.T.gives specific prompts to the groupleader for using comprehension strategies: Predict Clarify Ask QuestionsSummarise

There is also support provided throughWord Help and Location Help at theback of the book.

How are Into Connectors & Connectors different?

additionalprompts to

stimulate furtherconversation

My predictions were right/wrong

because ...

1. Predict

2. Clarify

I am looking at the photograph and I think this page might be about ... because ...

Were there any words you didn’t know to to say?

Were there any words you didn’t know the meaning of?

Let’s check:clinging

3. Ask questions

4. Summarise

What we have just read was:

Who has a question to ask about what we have read?

What do you think the rangers might do?

Scripted, sentence starters open meaningful conversations about the text while building student’s confidence as leaders.

The I.T. (Invisible Teacher) offers explicit prompts for the leader.

The structured framework allows students to engage confidently in discussions.

The I.T. offers stimulating and thought provoking conversation starters.

Page from ‘Ollie and Ruby’ (Series 1)

Page from ‘Born to Be Free’ (Series 1)

Page from ‘Sky Car’ (Series 2)

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Connectors provides a range of engaging nonficiton titles at two levels.Each title has twelve self-contained double-page spreads. Each student is a group leader twice in a Connectors’ title.

Connectors Recommended for Upper Primary independent readers

Students are given general prompts oneach page for the comprehension strategies:

Predict Clarify Ask QuestionsSummarise

How are Into Connectors & Connectors different?

1. Predict

2. Clarify

3. Ask questions

4. Summarise

Other comprehension strategies besides those used in Reciprocal Reading are introduced throughout each book.

Stop signs on some pages invite students to use other comprehension strategies.

Page from ‘Right to Survive’ (Series 1) Page from ‘Cycle of Nature’ (Series 2)

The STOP Signs expand the range of comprehension strategies explicitly used to include:

Make Connections Visualise Express OpinionsMake Inferences (Connectors Series 2)The range of visual images and features also expands in Connectors.

Connectors has generic student support

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