Spelling
- Focus on rules rather than words and lists. Joy Alcott book?- Challenging you about spelling rules etc. shows that they are thinking so run with that.
Learning Pathways and Progressions
Gail Loane - "Every child has something to say - it is our job to believe it and have our students believe it too".
- Merge different experts ideas together, rather than just using one.
The Learning Journey - Thinking about it through the metaphor of a car journey.
- Why are we on this journey? Remember to unpack this and make this visible for students - know your learners! Make learning about them - motivating, personalised, engaging.
Examples of why:
- To inform
- To persuade
- To entertain
- To describe
- How do I know where to go? Use of the Literacy Progressions (What) and Effective Literacy Practice (How).
- How is this journey ignited? Engagement and Motivation - Provocations.
- How can we accelerate the journey? Challenge ourselves to do something different for lower learners. Progress vs. Achievement.
- How will students know that they have been successful? Kid Speak Progressions.
- What does the dashboard say? Give students updates and feedback. Notice and observe - Check in.
- Stronger collaboration between ELC and Classroom. Could Judy come into class and observe/support to give me some tips on how to best work with my target learners?
Literacy Learning Progressions
- Complete the Literacy Learning Progressions Tracking and Monitoring Sheet for target students.
- Focus on one thread at a time.
- Be explicit in your teaching.
- Unpack a thread at a time so that you know and understand the progressions.
- Get students to pick out and be aware of what is expected in the progressions - Take one specific thread and get them to unpack it.
Age + 3 - This is how long children can focus for.
Age + 3 - This is how long children can focus for.
John Hattie
- Importance of peer interaction
- Make the success criteria clear
- Small parts at a time
- Co-construct the success criteria
Building a Success Criteria
Using Exemplars - What do you notice across the three texts?
To write a Narrative:
- Who, what, where, when (orientation)
- Started with a problem
- Past tense
- Characters
- Paragraphs
- Grammar
- Punctuation (.,"")
- Sequence of events that each paragraph follows
- Climax
- Simple, compound, complex sentences
- Put what they say on the success criteria and the technical term in brackets - honour what they are saying.
Guided Writing Session
- Formative Assessment - Exit Pass - What did you learn today and why?
- To extend this lesson move onto complex sentences starting with a simile.
Resources used in this lesson:
More Information about Guided Writing - Effective Literacy Practice pg. 111 - Chapter 5: Engaging Learners with Texts
Rotation - 10-12 minutes per group
- Teacher - Guided
- Follow-Up
- Editing/Publishing
- Independent (Use of Writer's Journal here?)
- Writing Table (Variety of pens, paper, photos, pictures, Ipads/Laptops)
Tips for Grouping
- Use of visuals for your Target Group that they can take with them to their Follow-Up Activity.
- Make reluctant learners the expert and create a shared piece of writing.
- Follow-Up Activity is a time for them to put their learning from the guided session into practice in an independent piece of writing.
Once ability groups are set up you can bring in more choice and workshops.
Possible Paragraph Lesson:
- Chop up exemplar or own writing into pieces and get students to group like ideas into paragraphs.
- Use one students work as an example and get the class to rework it.
Compound Sentences - Explicit Group Teaching
Mini Lessons can be found on YouTube - No Frills Writing
Austin's Butterfly - Feedback and Feedforward
- Be specific with feedback and feedforward.
- Keep making improvements.
- 'yet' rather than 'but'.
- 'good start' and 'draft' - students need to know that author's rework and recraft many times.
- Use of honeycombs/hexagons for goals - 6 times for evidence (sides with dates), highlighted what they are working on and what they have achieved. Link to LLP Tracking and Monitoring Sheet.
Kagan's Cooperative Learning for Engagement
Tips:
- Write two students on weekly planner each week that are your focus students (Greet them in the morning, check in with them etc.). This will help to ensure that students don't slip through the cracks.
- Book - Learning in the Fast Lane by Suzy Pepper Rollins
- Website - Kidspeak Progressions
- Website - Pobble - Lend Me Your Literacy
- Website - The Literacy Shed Picture Prompts
- App - Google Extension Read and Write
- Clip of Joey from friends using thesaurus
- Website - Word Families Game
- Website - Text Type Examples
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