Day 3 - Reflection "Text Selection"

My takeaways from todays session could be summarised in pictures below: 

1. Exploring Journal Surf for Books at correct levels with audio/pdf copies for students. This makes it easier when finding books at different levels with different areas of reading. A great tool for finding books.

2. Another way of looking at what I can do on a weekly basis with my reading program. A great STOCK TAKE of reading program. Some things that I can add on to my reading program are Read to and Long texts (novels/chapter books).

3. Finally looking at one place to see what my groups have done. Making sure I strike a balance in all areas of reading.

Another great day spent looking at various reading that I can implement in my program. Lots to take in but I am glad I chose the three I will work on for the next few weeks.

Day 2 - Homework

 

A good lesson with my group about ancient navigators. Feeding the vocab to the group before the reading session made it easier for them to understand the text. 

I used the reciprocal reading concept (similar to book club) and it gave all members a voice and they felt proud to contribute to the discussion.

Me and Mary are in the same learning space with three classes so collaborative planning makes life easy.

Ground rules have now become part of our reading program and students know it well. 

Planning the taskboard together 

RPI Day 2 - Knowing your learners as Readers

 Another interesting day today looking at various areas in Reading and how to get started with a design of learning that engages learners to become good readers.

A good amount of time spent on understanding PAT data and looking at strengths and new learning areas for my students. 

This task made it simpler to look into the focus areas for my learners and also break it down into different groups such as gender, ethnicity to get a wider picture.

Also making use of the ARBS resource which is clearly linked to the different question types and examples to do with the students.

Finally started to realise the benefits of a log book to keep record of everything we do with the learners. This acts as a "one stop shop" for us and is very helpful planning the next steps with Learning intentions, success criterias and tasks with the whole design of learning concept.

Over the next couple of weeks, I will look into making use of these resources gained today to make a better design for my reading program to benefit my students.

RPI Day 1 Follow Up Task Reflection

 Introduction to ground rules

I took on board the ground rules and implemented it to one of our reading groups. The rules were no different to what they are already used to but I made it really explicit and said we will reflect on it and the end of our session. 

The results are as follows:

Next step for the group is to look at both sides of the issue.

The reason students gave a one to asking questions was because they understood the text well and had nothing to ask. Maybe the text was easy for them. I will need to ensure that there are challenging texts for the group but too difficult that they lose the plot completely.

Results of the Reading Survey from our LEARNERS

Basically, many are only limited to the books they read during our guided reading sessions. Next step is to encourage more independent reading and finding books they enjoy so they become hooked more into reading.