Shine Interventions: Reading Skills and GPS include interactive modelling software for the 'Text A' Learning Sequences.
You can use the modelling software with a large group on an interactive whiteboard or with smaller groups and individual learners on desktops and handheld devices.
Follow the steps below to use the modelling software:
- Generate a Shine Interventions: Reading Skills or GPS report.
- Click the link to the modelling software.
- Read the text on the 'Home' screen aloud, ask your learners to read it, or click the Play button to listen to the accompanying audio.
- Using the teaching guidance (attached at the bottom of this article), you can demonstrate approaches to the text by discussing with the pupils and asking questions.
- Across the top of the screen you will find tabs for the three Areas of Learning: Retrieval, Vocabulary and Inference (for Reading Skills) and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling and Vocabulary (for GPS). Click on these to show the questions alongside the text; click the questions to expand them.
- Use the teaching guidance to work through the question with pupils, highlighting evidence in the text using the different coloured highlighting tools.
- Click Save Your Evidence to save your highlighted text to the answer screen.
- When you are are ready to answer the questions, click Answer to view your highlighted evidence and enter your final answer.