This term I have tweaked what we do in our group time a little bit. One session has been dedicated to learning about a particular spelling/reading pattern and then in the next one or two sessions I have introduced a text so we are also working on comprehension of non-fiction text and learning new vocabulary. The texts have been selected, as much as possible, to link with the school-wide inquiry topic for this term which is “There's Something in the Water”. The students usually play one of my reading games during the fourth session.
I have moved some students into different groups based on the results of the testing the teachers did last term. It took a few weeks for the new groups to ‘gel’. Most of the students now seem more confident to answer and ask questions than they were earlier in the year.
