This term I have tweeked 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.
Kia ora Jenni,
ReplyDeleteIt is great to hear you have been tweaking your program to suit the needs of the learners. I think that it is so important to apply the spelling/reading skills to real text and provide opportunities to get excited about non-fiction texts. How are you going with find texts connected to the topic? I often find that find the right level of text connected to the topic area can be a real struggle. It sounds like you are in full swing with your program now and I look forward to seeing all you achieve by the end of the year.
Thank you for all you do.
Clarelle