Today has been a really awesome session in the Day 5 RPI, the most interesting part of my day was the Read like Writers and Write like Readers. I absolutely enjoyed this part and will be using this in my class. Great day overall. Looking forward to Day 6.
Here are a few of my takeaways from this session.
Pillars of Practice: Today we are focussing on the second Pillar, but with a more detailed view of Guided Reading. Regular and systematic Guided Reading offers particular benefits for teaching, observing and scaffolding to develop skills and strategies to better understand text.
Reading through Class Sites
Making sure you have minimal clicks to get to the students learning they need to do. Having an attractive site so kids get hooked in, and having meaningful group names for your learners.
The Learning Pit:
Self explanation on the picture but I really love this and I will be sharing this with my kids and ensuring them that they need to be in the Pit at some point however its ok again if they are not yet there, Keep tracking along and we will eventually get there.
Where am I going?, How am I going?, and Where to next?
Read like Writers and Write like Readers.
The main thing today I have taken away from today’s session is the Read like Writers and Write like Readers. I totally enjoyed this activity and I honestly can't wait to try this activity with my class, I think they would really like it and be totally engaged Reading a short paragraph about something and then actually writing their own paragraph about it too using the same questions we were asked. Watch this space.
Writing like Readers and Reading like Writers, is to ensure we can meet the coverage for our learners to be able to think and become great readers and great writers. Deepening their understanding by listening to what the reader is trying to tell us, we will be able to then put it into our own words to become better writers.
See you on the next one.
Kia ora Kelly
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your reflections on Day 5: Planning a Reading Programme. It’s great to hear that you were excited by the concept of “Write like a reader, Read like a writer”. I hope the resources and ideas become a springboard for thinking about how you might encourage students to ‘borrow’ and ‘leverage’ features of mentor texts.
I really look forward to hearing how your practice implementations and coaching discussions build off these takeaways.
Nga mihi
Naomi R.
Literacy Facilitator - Manaiakalani Reading Practice Intensive
Kia ora Kelz, I love that Write like a reader activity too and as discussed have seen it activated with various akonga in our school and we talked how you might scaffold it for some of your learners.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to have these examples that you can build from, kids love to innovate from a text and it can be applied to other genre.
Looking forward to seeing how it goes.
Ngā mihi
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