Sheena Cameron - Last person standing. A great warm up that I have used before. Students needed to stand and think of a word relating to our topic. Some really interesting words relating to our school/ values/ equipment. Need more work on technical words/ vocabulary. These words were also added to their writing books.
Oral language is the key to literacy and developing ideas 'the heart of writing.' See here for more information (UK based research though) - https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/tools/guidance-reports/literacy-ks-one/#recommendation-1
Different ways to look at keywords - http://hotandthinkertools.wikispaces.com/Keywords
Students then used these keywords to explain 'random' objects. Great watching the students working collaboratively with this. More work needs to be done to support students with vocabulary though - how does this look in the class - what skills/ strategies do I still need to work on - I need to think of interesting/ exciting ways of doing this now.
A session needs to be added into next weeks plan. The challenge I'm facing at the moment is trying to fit all these skills in within my classroom programme - what skills are important? If I am to do things differently - should I be focusing on deeper features and how much time does need to be spend doing this - instead of having fun - 'instilling the love of literacy.'
Effective Use of the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model - D. Fisher
Discusses the evidence of effective instructions and how they can develop their 'expertise' in all aspects of reading and writing - including oral language. Reading about 'vertical alignment' - here is where there is an alignment with the process and outcome that provides students with a coherent sequence. Making sure their is a relationship between the reading and writing for students to extend their vocabulary and giving these students extra attention to develop these skills.
What Doesn't Work: Literacy Practices We Should Abandon - N.Duke
We know that finding a word in the dictionary doesn't build vocabulary - we are not working with them to develop vocabulary if this is what we are doing. Students need to be exposed to what this language looks like/ how it is used and making fun with the words in interesting engaging ways.
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