Dorothy discussed what ubiquitous access to learning looks like……
at a base level this picture describes it:
A good example of an independent task board:
Dorothy explained how ‘Blogs’ are such a good resource to amplify reading and writing.
Keep in mind that when designing a reading programme that children will go through the
Doing different activities with writing eg. Persuasive writing heaps of good
resources can now be found on Epic books:
The ‘daily five’ is a group of literacy activities that we need to be aware of.
It is used in lots of junior areas of the school.
Keeping track of the Mahi - I really liked this set up.
Read theory is a great application to present children texts and then
questions and feedback related to those texts. It adapts questions based
on whether you get the answers right or wrong. Read Theory are apparently
using AI at the back end of this to assist with this. Read Theory is often a
program that is used to help students prepare for tests such as PAT’s. Once you have
assigned a task to the kids they could take a screenshot of what they have completed
for the week to help with accountability.
Here is an example of what Read Theory looks like:
It was good to note that the Sunshine Classics app is free to all Manaikalani Schools:
Below is a really good set of instructions that I am looking forward to implementing
During my ‘Buddy Reading’ time this year with Room 8.
Interesting point - Kids imitate and then appropriate texts from their reading into their writing. Rebecca Jesson calls it ‘borrowing’. This can help children immensely with their writing.
Here is an awesome website to get some great picture inferencing resources from:
