I met with Mrs Wilson (our specialist reading teacher) today to talk about my ideas for my Inquiry and see if she could recommend any Readings or research for me.
She looked at the activities that I have planned for my groups and we chatted about extending my turquoise+ readers, with the goal of them becoming silver+, through a rich focus on building comprehension.
I’m going to look at ways I can track their task completion, through to blogging of their work. I’m thinking I could assess this group of learners through a basic rubric model, as well as giving them the chance to self-assess. We talked about using the empty (open-plan) classroom space. I could send them in there to voice record and put wall displays up such as mind maps for them to refer back to. Using concrete as well as digital resources.
I am going to refer to Sheena Cameron & Louise Dempsey’s resource ‘The Reading Book’, with a focus on comprehension and rich tasks to extend learners and enrich their vocabulary and critical thinking.
I need to figure out some sort of observation tool to look at how much dialogue we are having in our reading groups as I want to focus on this to inform my planning.
How am I going to track their progress?
I am also going to go through previous CoL teachers blogs who have looked at similar subjects and see if that can spark further ideas.
Notes from ‘The Reading Book’:
‘A bank of researched reading comprehension strategies supports students with comprehension.’
Activating Prior-Knowldge
Self-Monitoring
Predicting
Making Connections
Questioning
Inferring
Visualising
Summarising
Synthesising
Reading a range of texts. Reading with expression. Making time for reading to?!!!
How can I make sure I am purposefully teaching and assessing these things?
Critical Thinking:
Levelled Goals for Guided Reading Groups:
Looking particularly at moving from Gold to Silver:
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