RPI Day 5 - Planning a Reading Programme

As always, another session with lots to think about!

One thing I really took out of the day was the concept of Read like writers and Write like Readers.  This is where we get our students to imitate the writing style of an author they have read.  I'm interested to see how my students will go with this.

One thing that Kiri raised to us was about what are our children doing when they aren't with us.  This made me think long and hard if all my activities that I have for my learners are worth while.  She spoke about having a 50/50 split responsibility being put on my learners and myself as a teacher, I thought this was a great idea and I will re-incorporate the 'Mahi Tracker' with my children as of next week.

One thing that was interesting is planning for 1 on 1 conferencing, I often find that I just think this will happen and it often gets forgotten about, however, if I plan for this explicitly I know it will happen.  The thing I will struggle with is where does that time come from?

This image is great, goes to show exactly what learning is and how it should be done.  I'm looking forward to showing my learners this, so they know they need to be in the Pit for them to learn. It's okay not to know things.

What opportunities am I giving my learners to have ownership over their learning?

I like the thought of Mixed Ability grouping, I have been doing this for Poetry, teaching this whole class then choosing mixed ability groups to work with, this has been great so far as we are all learning about language features as their is very little prior knowledge in our classroom.

Goals moving forward: Have my mahi tracker working, focus on beginnings of stories, continue my poetry, do my podcast rotations with my reading groups.

What are people's thoughts on doing  a novel study with the whole class? (Reading ages 9-12.5) Mixed ability grouping??

RPI Day 4 - Guided Reading

Just before my weekly blog post I'd like to let everyone know that we had a Kahoot to see who was paying attention the best during the day out of about 20 of us and I won, yes, Zac Moran won! Hahah

Day 4! 

I always love starting the day with how my small breakout team has been going and how my homework went.  It's a great start to the day and we are able to catch up with everyone and see how everyone has been going implementing RPI into their Reading programme. 

Just to let my readers know, I have taken a lot of screenshots this week, there were so many good slides and different things that I wanted to share with you all!

One of the first things that were talked about was the importance of having a word wall in your classroom.  I'm going to make one of these for my classroom wall and make sure that we update it weekly.

There are so many different aspects to a reading programme in a classroom, the timetable below is a great plan showing you how you can incorporate everything!  These 6 bullet points are all really important for our learners to be good readers. This leads into my next goal that I have come up with that my mentor and I discussed.  Friday is going to be whole class Poetry day and I'm going to try doing Kiri's 'Chunky Challenge' vocab game.  I'll let you all know how it goes in my next post.

One of our homework tasks was to get 2 videos of our learners and we marked how they went with their 'reading fluency' against the fluency rubric below.  I'm going to make this one of the tasks my learners will do in our response to text as a create activity.  I think it will be a good chance for my learners to listen to themselves. I can also use this rubric to mark my learners against how they did in their podcasting.

What an incredible session, I'm pretty inspired to go and teach reading tomorrow! Buuuuuut, we have camp!  We are going to start Week 2 with a bang for our Reading programme.  My new things that I'm implementing are my Poetry and Vocab Fridays. I'm also only going to be doing a 2 week rotation with my groups between podcasting and my normal reading programme with text sets and response to text activities.  Stay tuned for my next post!