One of the videos I watched was growing writers. It showed how the teacher allowed her students to get grounded in writing. The teacher scaffold writing into each subject during the day. Each child has a writers notebook. I like that she has students share out their writing and in return the other students give warm feedback.
Helping struggling readers caught my eye. Teachers say one to one instruction is highly effective when teaching phonemic awareness. I find this interesting, I taught struggling reader's in a program called "Reading Rescue" I did one to one teaching for thirty minutes a day with a child in a separate location in my school. In the video the teacher goes from decoding the word with the student then chopping the word up and then blend the word, The one on one teaching with guidance and provided feed back gives the struggling reader more clarity.
What else matters was another video I watched. This teacher had at least five or more literacy corners in her classroom. They had a post office corner where the students write letters to one another. I think I will incorporate this into my classroom. The teacher used balanced literacy from whole group to small groups. Students can do work through guided instruction as well.
Thank you for your post. your synthesis of the videos is accurate. any thought on take aways to bring back to your classroom?
ReplyDeleteI would like to incorportate one of the literacy corners in my classroom, the post office. I think this would give my students independent practice with their writitng also being fun at the same time waitng for a response. This will support improvement in their writing.
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