Suggested Next Steps for PAT Reading
Each individual item provides you with a direct link with the ARBs where you can find curriculum levelled activities to use as diagnostic teaching tools to provide 'in class' evidence that students know and understand a skill, or do not. NB: These have not been updated to Phases, however, kaiako can still relate the Year levels to the old curriculum levels - E.G. level 2 = Year 3 & 4
The Comprehension Strategies link provides succinct descriptions of the strategies from the old Effective Literacy Handbook 1-4 and 5 -8, with links to activities to use in teaching. Kaiako can make easy connections with the new Comprehension Strategies and Critical Analysis sections of Te Mātaiaho english curriculum.
By looking across student test results, and having conversations with students around these results, your next focus might be to access the ARB resources that provide further materials for the teaching of strategies that are ākonga's next steps.
Comprehending specialised language
How understanding text features benefits reading comprehension
ARB resources that focus on inference:
Making local inferences
Making global inferences