It was a very fast day with heaps of learning and sharing. We do seem to be weary at the moment through with illness, workload and possibly winter weather. It was nice to have a laugh together.
The work we did today gave a greater understanding of the Pillars of Practice: Reading to Writing. I had been doing a lot of answering questions and summarising but not using the text students had read to scaffold their writing. I also see the need to use a better balance of analogue (going to teach my students that one) and digital tools to cater for a wide variety of learning styles.
I am very keen to use mote to give feedback to my students as some just click done on comments on their work or in their books - don't they don't respond to them (any ideas much appreciated).
With Teachers Workbook I am tracking one group (Year 4's) individually. This week I have included my other groups - planning and tracking progressions as a group, and identifying individual's gaps where needed. It will be interesting to see how this goes over the next three weeks.
The read to write are great activities to share with my group as this is where our focus is going next. It was great to personally practice Sensory Imagery to Create Suspense. Writing the words to the questions created a clear path for my writing and I could visualise the scene in my head. I have Year 4's through to Year 6's and they could all achieve this whether by drawing their answers or writing. It definitely gave me confidence to write!
With my team, students and whānau I am going to share the Q-A-R and Literacy Planet sites as they would be a great addition to our Choice reading for our Taskboards.
