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Observation of a class of 7-9 year olds engaged in various activities designed to develop intermediate reading skills.
Observation of a class of 7-9 year olds engaged in various activities designed to develop intermediate reading skills.
| Module code and title: | PE231, Reading development |
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| Item code: | PE231; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 1977 |
| Published: | 1977 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | David Seligman |
| Contributors: | John Chapman; Mary Hoffman; Morag Hunter |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Anaphora; Attributes matrix; Cloze; Intermediate reading |
| Footage description: | Brief voice-over introduction by Mary Hoffman over classroom activities at Saffron Green First School. Barbara Chamberlaine is then observed taking a group of children in a sentence-building exercise, using firstly illustrated cards, and then word cards without illustrations. Hoffman introduces the next exercise, in which Chamberlaine gets a group of children to improve the structure of a lengthy sentence containing many 'ands'. Introductory remarks by Hoffman. Chamberlain takes one child for a reading lesson and encourages the use of anaphora. In a lengthy sequence, Chamberlaine helps a a group to structure an attributes matrix. The exercise involves identification of the characteristics of different fruits, and of their similarities and dissimilarities. After a brief comment from Hoffman on the last excercise, Chamberlaine takes a group of children through a cloze passage. She allows the children to fill the gaps with whatever words they think most suitable. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72288 |
| Production number: | 00525_6158 |
| Videofinder number: | 1105 |
| Available to public: | no |
