During today's session the focus for me has been to look for areas missing in how I handle gifting language to learners. The basic takeaways from this session were to focus my attention to the Key Approaches to Explicit Vocabulary Instruction:
1. Building Word Consciousness - Interest and awareness (FUN!) of words.
2. Deliberate, robust interactive teaching of words.
3. Skills for cracking unfamiliar words.
4. Morphology.
I'll be using the resource bank for morphology in particular for my taskboard activities next term. Setting up a Word Knowledge Organiser will surely help my kids with reflecting on their learning, especially in fear of being "outed". I don't like being reminded of what I don't know and neither do they.
Kia ora Regan
ReplyDeleteIt’s great to read that you took away a number of activities and approaches from RPI Day 6 that you plan to integrate into your reading programme. I agree that the Morpheme Matrixes and the Vocabulary Register will definitely come in handy for “pick up and go” templates and ready-made tasks. I really look forward to hearing how your practice implementation goes, with the robust interactive designs.
All the very best for your Term 3 planning and hope you get some relaxing down time over the term break!
Nga mihi
Naomi
Literacy Facilitator - Manaiakalani Reading Practice Intensive
Hi Regan, To add to what Naomi has said, it's great that you can see the practical implimentation of this for your particular style of teaching and your paticular context. How wonderful! Looking forward to catching up next week. Kiri
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