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:
Kia ora Cam,
ReplyDeleteGreat to catch up with you last week and hear how you're getting in. It was great to hear how you are embedding inference learning with your learners in engaging, interesting ways.
It looks like the theme of your blog post this week is empowerment through scaffolding - how you might scaffold your learners to be able to have more choice in their learning, but with structures like tracking docs to make sure that they are on the right track. This takes time to set up well, so that learners know what to do, and how to do it, but once it's set up, is very empowering for learners and should save you time as the teacher. I look forward to hearing how you get on, get in touch if you want to chat about it as you're developing this :)
See you next time,
Georgie
Kia ora Cam
ReplyDeleteIt is great to see how you are using your learning from the RPI days to help you think deeply about your own reading programme and then to implement changes. I agree with Georgie that the time it takes to set up structures and routines is time consuming to start, but you will very quickly reap the benefits! Keep working on those engaging and motivating follow up tasks and clear guidelines/routines for the class when working independently.
I can't wait to hear how your next buddy session goes.
Ngā mihi
Sarah