Connectors Starters
Before being introduced to Connectors, which uses a small-group peer-led reciprocal reading approach, children need to be familiar with the comprehension strategies and know how to apply these to their own reading. This is where the Connectors Starters series comes into play.
Introduce reciprocal reading with Connectors Starters
- Foster reading skills in Key Stage 1 with levelled books for the Blue to Orange bands
- Encourage children to think and share ideas with engaging fiction and non-fiction texts
- Build pupils’ confidence and group-working skills
- Support children to move on to the Connectors reading programme
More about this series
Connectors Starters are designed to be used with early readers as an introduction to reciprocal reading through the teacher explicitly modelling the reading strategies.
Each book explores a topical issue that gets children thinking and sharing ideas. Pupils build their oral language and listening skills, develop a range of thinking strategies and gain confidence working in teams.
As they progress through the series, children will learn to predict, clarify, question and summarise texts, and practise these strategies in context.
Once children are able to work independently, they can move on the Connectors series, which will introduce them to the more advanced strategies of giving opinions, making connections, visualising and making an inference.