Maria came today to work with me on tracking children's progress. She brought some wedge graphs that track reading levels and amount of words children can spell.
Writing - I need to focus on explicitly teaching children phonemic awareness because some children find it really difficult to understand the 'code' of reading and writing. I can do through focused writing groups 3x a week, using whiteboards for younger groups, group modeling books, more efficiently utilizing Pam during my writing and creating an activity like Marias 'Riddle Me Tree' to increase high-frequency words. My Yolanda Soryll course on Monday should also develop this area.
Maths - Maria gave me a few tips for my maths lessons. The hotspot game. This is where you write a number on top of the board and put lots of different ways to make the number at different levels on the board, some incorrect. The children then have to find the ones that are incorrect and correct. Also to develop imaging she said, getting children to put hands behind their back is a great way to develop this.
Reading - To deepen my lessons in reading. 1:1 matching - play catch the finger game. If the child is not matching their finger to the word, catch their finger and show them the area they are pointing and say "where is (word)?" After reading - read and find unknown word eg. cat. Have magnetic letters prepared, get them to make a word using magnetic letters and then write it underneath. Make sure you catch 'wrong way letters' and correct those. Use phrases like 'does your letter look the same as the one in the book?' and point to their letter, "what you see is what you say" "What you say is what you see"
Writing - I need to focus on explicitly teaching children phonemic awareness because some children find it really difficult to understand the 'code' of reading and writing. I can do through focused writing groups 3x a week, using whiteboards for younger groups, group modeling books, more efficiently utilizing Pam during my writing and creating an activity like Marias 'Riddle Me Tree' to increase high-frequency words. My Yolanda Soryll course on Monday should also develop this area.
Maths - Maria gave me a few tips for my maths lessons. The hotspot game. This is where you write a number on top of the board and put lots of different ways to make the number at different levels on the board, some incorrect. The children then have to find the ones that are incorrect and correct. Also to develop imaging she said, getting children to put hands behind their back is a great way to develop this.
Reading - To deepen my lessons in reading. 1:1 matching - play catch the finger game. If the child is not matching their finger to the word, catch their finger and show them the area they are pointing and say "where is (word)?" After reading - read and find unknown word eg. cat. Have magnetic letters prepared, get them to make a word using magnetic letters and then write it underneath. Make sure you catch 'wrong way letters' and correct those. Use phrases like 'does your letter look the same as the one in the book?' and point to their letter, "what you see is what you say" "What you say is what you see"
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