--- title: Pair reading a non-fiction text --- # Pair reading a non-fiction text ## Pair reading a non-fiction text   Reading a text to acquire knowledge places great demands on pupils' decoding skills and reading fluency. It also requires them to understand the content.  Pupils can listen to a text in order to have the same conditions for understanding the content and learning the content.   As a teacher, you can also provide support by teaching them how to approach a non-fiction text in your subject. It is motivating for pupils to learn how to read in different ways when it is " for real". #### Instructions   Take a text from the area you will be working on in your subject.   Choose whether the pupils will:  - Overview reading. - Skim reading Intensive reading. - Normal reading. - Reading selectively. - Close reading. You read and model what you do when you use your chosen method.  - Divide pupils into pairs according to reading ability.   - Use the results of the assessment to help you.   - Have pupils take turns reading a text aloud to each other in the same way as you have just done.  - You can let the pupils continue to work in pairs when they read further in the work area and process the text together.      --- Back to Lesson plans and exercises