I thought it might be worth a short blog post to share how we've attempted to best teach Reading, trying to maintain some progress for our students in a distanced learning / 'Bubble School' world.
Here are some resources that my team has put together:
We are back at school and there has been a shift in our School's PLD focus to Reading. Therefore the direction of my professional Inquiry is changing again. I am proud of the way my team adapted to the challenges of going into lockdown and the resources we produced for the children on our site. I look forward to getting back to ‘business as usual’ with a focus on my Reading Programme.
I have taken on more of our able, high-achieving readers from within the team, but still have a group of mostly Year 3s, stuck at the end of Green. I really feel that with a push from me, they have the potential to progress much closer to the desired 8 years reading age by the end of this year.
My Inquiry Focus question has become:
How can I lift student achievement and fluency in Reading, to progress hesitant readers from a Reading Age of 6 years, to 8 years?
In our staff meeting this week, we have been asked to go away and identify what our learners are doing when they come to an unknown word. Here is what I have found.
