Teaching assistant interview, got to read to a small group of year ones and then discuss the book?

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Anyone have any ideas on what I should incorporate and how I should go about it after I've read the book. What will they be looking for?

Try a picture book with a moral. Or just discuss their real life experience of something that happens in the story. Once you have chosen a book it shouldn't be too hard to find something to discuss. The Tiger who came to Tea. Have they ever seen a tiger in the zoo? Have they had an unexpected visitor? Should a visitor eat all their food? Have they been out to eat at a cafe?

I teach yr1 one of the big things in literacy is using good adjectives - wow words we call them. This week I read a lovely book The Jolly Postman as a follow up the children were shown last two pages and to tell me something they could see in a sentence ( important to give ans. in sentence form) using really good wow words e.g. I can see a bright shining moon in the dark misty sky.
Also as the book is about the postman delivering leters to different story characters the children can suggest who else the postman might visit what would he take them.
Good luck with interview.

Thanks thats brilliant. I've found a story about some meercats one of whom is different from the others. In the end the differences are celebrated etc.

Really lovely. Great ideas though about looking for themes in the book. Will look at the wow words too.

Thanks

Remember to ask open-ended questions that can have no right or wrong/yes or no answer, and to praise children for their contributions.

And good luck

I'd take the easy option and go for Gruffallo / or child, as chances are they will have all seen it on tv over Christmas even if they haven't paid enough attention to you reading, so will be able to have input.

I'm going to read Marvins Funny Dance. Its about an individual who doesn't follow the normal pattern of the other meercats, although in the end the meercats end up relying on him.

What sort of questions should I be asking?

Hi, I have a TA job interview next week. I am required to read a book to small group of year 2 children. What sort of books can I read? As they will be 6-7 year old so don't want to read too babyish. I was thinking 'tiger who came for tea'. Any advice will be appreciated

@HopeBangtan you might get better advice if you start your own thread as the title is Y1.
I would say The Tiger Who Came to Tea is a bit young - my just turned 4yo is a big fan. Trying to think of what my nearly 7yo would like

The day the crayons quit or Traction man are popular y2 texts. Tiger who came to tea is more for younger children.

Maybe have a few books ready in case you find out they read the book you've chosen last week!

Don't dismiss the cover. Ask them what they expect to happen in the story? What kind of feelings do they expect to have? When have they ever experienced those feelings? What words do you think will be in the story? Then, at the end reflection on what they had predicted. If they had written the book would they have chosen the same ending? How would they have changed it? Would they recommend it to a friend? Why?

Or read the Gruffalo, but in French.

In an interview recently I did A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson with a small group of year 1s. I asked blanks level questions (speech and language technique) going through to look at their language skills and got them to talk about their experiences with things in the book, what they thought might happen next, who in the book was right, what they would do etc. The kids really enjoyed it and engaged well, I also got the job so it must have gone pretty well for me! I’d say in general as you don’t know the ability of the group use a slightly lower level text that you can adjust up with questions, as opposed to using a more advanced book that needs lots of support and scaffolding for them to access as this can be harder when you don’t know them. I’ve done a fair few of these interview recently so hope this helps.

I've never been a TA but when I used to read to DC I would stop just before something happens in the story and ask: What do you think happens next? Let them guess and then say, 'Lots of good ideas. you could all be writing stories about Marvin. Let's see what happens next to him in this story' then turn the page.

You could talk about emotions - how do you think Marvin felt when...?
Why do you think the other meerkcats...?
You could open it up e.g.
Marvin loves to dance - What sort of music do you like to dance to?