Vocabulary - Day 6 RPI

Today was all about Vocabulary.  We discussed what we did for H.W and shared our ideas. 

I liked Wayne’s idea which was having reading split into 2 parts.  One part focussing on working with a reading group then they did a follow up task.  The second part was focusing on vocabulary conferencing and giving feedback and feedforward straight away.

Dorothy's - Vocabulary talk was insightful. She highlighted the importance of vocabulary and the connection to reading comprehension.

Apps Dorothy mentioned

If we use word wall app task get kids to screen shot when done with timestamp on a google doc and have it shared on the mahi tracker.

A handy tip was the importance of the humble Google doc and how it can be utilised to created a variety of vocab. activities/tasks.

e.g

The importance harnessing digital tools

Robust - 5 principles of robust vocabulary teaching

I want to try these

and these.

Overall I enjoyed today and I am going to restructure my timetabling to include at least one session per week to teach vocabulary/morphology tasks.

Day 5 - RPI Planning a reading programme

Today I learned about what to consider when Planning a reading programme.  It was a lot but I think if I try one thing at a time e.g Turn in sheet I should be able to manage.

My goals are to create easy to maintain multi-modal tasks for a group or two next term and to improve my Learner timetable where they click on the image for their group e.g Albatross, which will take them to their slide/s and/or reading mahi for the week.  

I'm going to try to make slides with Must do, Can do activities for each group and potentially reconfigure my class site to include Reading, Writing & Maths.  I also want to make a one stop shop for reading response templates e.g KWL chart.  

I like to find a new book to read aloud to the class and to demonstrate how to read with fluency and expression.  Remembering to share with my learners this is what good reading sounds like.  

I will grab boxes of books and try reading first and have a good sense of where to stop. I'll read 2 chapters then stop and say if you want to find out what happens next here are the books.

I am also wanting to try the turn in sheet.  Do it next term and make it one thing a week e.g Reading.

It was helpful having time to sign up to the different independent tasks as well.

Today I enjoyed everything but especially the Write like a reader and, Read like a writer task I did.  I'm keen to try his task with my students to help improve their writing experiences.