Room 26 T1 PENN 2021 World of movement.

 

End of year reflection.

 Looking back on 2020, it has been difficult school year to consistently give my priority learners the guidance and apply any deliberate and explicit acts of teaching .

This just meant that when the children did come to school, I spent the mornings reading with my priority learners as well as our nominated time for reading everyday. I was very happy to see that by the end of the year there was some "movement" or "progress" with all 6 of my children. 

Sia went to Level 8, Harmeny went to level 7, Amelia went to level 7 and Malakai went to level 9. One thing I have observed throughout this year is the fact that support from Home goes a long way this adds to the individual child's learning and progress. But it is now so pleasing to see the individual child put the very strategies I consistently portrayed when I was with them, into play. You see them asking themslves and each other does it sound right? does it make sense? They are breaking words down they are looking to the picture for clues and they are sounding that initial letter out.

Let's celebrate you: Film Festival 2020

 Even though schools are closed, we still carried on with our learning at home.

PENN T3 Our Learning.

 

T4 Immersion Assembly. Different Artists!

 

 Back to School on Monday and looking forward to it! Just before lock down, I managed to do a running record on Alex, one of my priority learners. The data showed me that he needed to go into another reading group. 

I was very happy to move one of my Priority learners "Paaka" to the yellow group so I am hoping that this lock down has in no way had a negative affect on the gains we have made. I have now inherited another 2 students that are L4 Red readers. 

Jeremiah who has come rom L3 Red.

Mia who has come from L3 Red.

Some things we have done so far are; Break up words, end sounds/middle sounds, and word families.

All the above strategies were very valuable for the students however on reflection, the most beneficial one was indeed word families. The rich conversations and the different activities that could be explored were ample.

So my next steps,

I will continue with deliberate acts of teaching,. Looking at words we read, word parts, phonic sounds word meanings and like sounds. During my teaching sessions I have begun to implement more deliberate act of teaching (these deliberate acts of teaching include modelling, prompting, questioning, giving feedback, gifting words, telling, explaining and directing.

Continuation of my reading Inquiry for 2020.

I have managed to really FOCUS on my 6 individual children. There is a question mark over 1 of them as he is new, and I need to conduct a running record on him (to make sure he is in the correct reading group).

I will be focusing on Red group, Level 5. Before I could implement any reading strategy I had to test my students to see where their knowledge gaps were. 

 

By applying the Gwyneth Phillips strategies for reading with my children -I will be expecting to see some positive results. I have tried to break my lower groups into 4-5 children. 

As a beginning teacher, this will help me manage my children and ensure their path to success.when I was So I guess the first thing I need to put out there (being totally transparent),is that when I was first told about Gwyneth Phillips and her reading strategy I wasn't sure HOW and IF any of these strategies would work on my children. But I have been very lucky and got to observe Mrs Nua in action with 3 of my children. The way that Mrs Nua managed the reading group was really successful and you could see the progress being made going forward. 

As a Beginner teacher for my own growth and development ( so I am not too overwhelmed and what I learn really sticks) I am Questioning all gross errors that the children make when they read to me, for example "You said..............., what would you expect to see for............?" I realise this will take me a lot of practise. It is not an easy task to do especially when you are in the midst of it all, ( LIVE and it's all ACTION) with 5 little humans reading their books at the same time.

After reading their books I got to see follow-up Wordwork. We focused on the word "Look". Mrs Nua had the letter b, t & c. Gwyneth Phillips uses the word "MAN" in the below example,

So my next steps are,

1. Running record on Alex

2. Take smaller groups (with my red GROUP

3. Implement Gwyneth Phillips strategy of Questioning children's gross errors.