Another interesting and informative day, today. As the session opened, we all shared our class site/timetables/reading planning with others in our small group. We often get so caught up in the day to day running of our classes that we don't get to have a look at how others are trying to cover everything in their weekly schedule. I'll keep coming back to this slide deck in future as there were so many great ideas to use.
Much of the SL part of today seemed like it would be over my head completely, given that I haven't done any structured literacy training yet. In the meantime I'm grateful for the introduction to the concepts and will wait to see how my school will implement SL PD at my level. On the other hand the "Great Beginnings" was fun to try and I will definitely roll an activity like that out in my class this next week. I enjoy running my reading into writing.
I've also really enjoyed going through Mr Wiseman's evolving taskboard design. Especially naming the reading groups after Fender guitars (well played sir!) which is encouraging to see others having fun with themselves and their planning.
Kia ora Regan
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing your reflections and takeaways from RPI Day 5: Planning a Reading Programme. It’s great that you found the timetable sharing at the start of the day to be informative and that you plan to come back to these for ideas. I completely agree that in the day-to-day of a busy classroom, we don’t really have the time or opportunity, to see how others are doing things.
I’m pleased, given you haven’t had any real exposure to Structured Literacy yet, that today provided a ‘gentle introduction’. I also look forward to hearing how your learners respond to the Read-Like-Writers activity. Thank you for sharing your piece of writing, which modelled so well the kinds of devices and ‘moodiness’ we want learners to take up in their own writing!
I’m looking forward to Day 6 and to hearing how your students engaged with your Homework practice activities.
Nga mihi
Naomi R.
Literacy Facilitator - Manaialkalani Reading Practice Intensive
Hi Regan, Great to see you are getting so much out of the sharing back of examples. I agree with bot you and Naomi, sometimes being in our own space we forget to look around us for what others are doing that might work for us in our own practise. Looking forward to our catch up this week. Kiri
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