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.
Kia ora Sharon
ReplyDeleteI am happy to see how much you enjoyed Day 5 and the new ideas that you will be able to implement in your learning space.
Yes, it is really difficult to stop the children just pushing 'resolved' on their Doc if you have left a comment and or a next step. Perhaps you could get them to copy and paste the thing that you have asked them to fix up as a response to your comment? Could be worth a try...?
I really enjoyed the read to write activity, too. Have you had a chance to do it yet? I look forward to hearing how you go with it.
Thanks,
Anna
I have just been reading your children's writing that they have completed after they have answered the questions focussing on creating suspense. What interesting writing they have produced, many left me wanting to read more! This writing lead us into interesting discussions around teaching how to write simple sentences correctly and also where to source the best rubrics for children to use when writing. With the large range of abilities in your writing group is it useful for all of the children to be working off the one rubric or do you need to have differentiated ones that are more specific to the goals that children at each curriculum level are working on. It is something for us to think on further.
ReplyDeleteYour reading activities seemed to have worked well with the children reading/watching sources on the same topic and then using this information to discuss and answer some true/false questions about the topic. You mentioned that the children enjoyed the glossary aspect of the task too but could see that maybe you would change the order and do this before the other tasks next time. It will be interesting to see how this goes. I look forward to an update in the coming weeks.