How do you make reading sessions fun and engaging for children who struggle with confidence?
"When children come for reading doctor sessions, they're often really low in confidence and have a really low sense of themselves as a reader. So we as reading doctors have many strategies - we call them thinking strategies that we will teach the children to call upon when they are struggling with a word. So one thing I always do to make it look a bit fun is if the children get to a word that they don't know, then they're allowed to press one of the buzzers. Also, some children really struggle with eye tracking, so we have 'point with your paw' and going back and rereading if they get stuck on a word as well.. So the whole thing of reading doctors is everything is fun and personalised."
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How do you use the space inside the reading cabin to support different learning styles?
"From the moment the children walk in the room, they see the array of chairs that they will choose and then they'll bring it up to the desk. It's great having the different sections of the cabin as well, so we'll start at the desk, but then we might do part of our work on the rug. Or we may go to the sofa afterwards to read a new book. We kind of move about, but dependent on the individual child, depends how the room is used."
How do you help children feel comfortable and supported during their sessions?
"It's really important to us that we touch base with the children's feelings and emotions. So we have the slider tool where they say, 'how am I feeling?' And also the little eggs as well. They can come in and they choose which egg they want to show me. Most often or not, they've changed it by the end of the session if they've come in feeling negative!"
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