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.
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
Kia Ora Ange,
ReplyDeleteI am loving all your reflection and sharing of the great resources and apps to support the literacy program. It is great to see the good old google doc being used and it has so many great tools to support the learning. I am a magpie myself and always go for the bright, shiny apps with all the sounds and images.
I have enjoyed looking at some of the vocab tools and see how I can implement some of them into the cyber smart activities. Which ones did the students enjoy?
Thanks for sharing.
Donna
HI Ange, Great to see you took a lot away from our vocabulary day. I love the fact yo are going to add vocabulary/morphology into your timetable. If we think this is an important aspect of literacy to be covering, and the research tells us it is, then we should be planning and deliberately teaching to it. I love the fact you have identified the 2 you want to start using with your class. Let us know how you get on with this. Kiri
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