Day 6: Vocabulary and Decoding.
Today we started our day off as usual which was so fitting being Maori Language week. I also asked to be excused and will be returning a little late as we at our school had a Haka off where the whole school participated in a full school haka that was being filmed to air in coming days. This was absolutely amazing and I feel everyone felt the wairua coming off that haka. What an amazing way to finish our Maori Language Week.
Having a word in one’s oral vocabulary makes it much easier to solve a word in print
I enjoyed learning about the different Tiers of words. Tier 1 being the high frequency words, tier 2 being a little more difficult words that learners dont use often and will now need to unpack throughout the text to be able to understand them and lastly the tier 3 words being specific topic focussed vocabulary that you wouldn't be able to use outside of this topic. When planning for reading, we need to find Tier 2 words that our learners are going to be able to use in their everyday lives. Check out my very own example we had to create/design during our day.
We were given exemplars of vocabulary tasks that we can use in our classroom. After having a go at doing these, we then made our own activities. This was a rich task and gave me a really good idea of how I wanted to go about doing follow up tasks rich of vocabulary. By doing this learners are able to continue learning the vocabulary we were doing during our guided reading lessons.
We need to keep our connections alive so that our learners can make those links.
Ensure you are explicitly teaching vocabulary for all our learners to succeed in school and life.
We can’t leave it to Chance.
My goal from this week is to start implementing the tier 2 words activity into my class. I think my learners will really like the challenge of trying to understand and find meaning to these words. Sooooo watch this space…….
