Week 3 - Text Selection
For me this week I feel that I have solidified a lot more around the 'why'. The importance of taking the time to select the text for our learners, what is actually going to help us to meet our learning objectives? Gone are the days where we go to the bookroom and take the next books on the shelf because thats where we are up to (baring in mind I teach Yr7/8). What Dorothy talked about - documenting and recording what we have read digitally daily. I do this for my basic facts so why am I not doing it for the independent reading? It seems so obvious upon reflection. Will definitely be starting this next week!
A huge takeaway I am taking back to my team tomorrow is the termly overview of text and the year text coveage. Since starting the RPI I have been tracking my own text coverage but it is definitely timely to be looking at my team and what we are covering and looking forward into Term 2 with where to next. Building/creating/sharing multimodal text sets no only helps us to reflect on what we are using within our teaching but helps us to formulate a valuable resource.
Soooo many useful pieces this week and lots of food for thought!
Kia Ora Rochelle,
ReplyDeleteThere have been so many ah moments and food for thought, it can be over whelming, and I know after last session my head was spinning. Today I also found it really reassuring that what we are doing is a great start, the way we group and select texts for groups. I find I get caught up in locating the text I often forget about the alternative for my more able groups. (Yes that means I do think about audio or video from my ESOL or lower groups). I know I will be looking at the multimodel sheet they shared with us to find ideas.
Enjoy the break
Ngā Mihi
Tanya Mundy
Edmund Hillary School
Kia ora Rochelle
ReplyDeleteWe are so pleased to hear that you had many “useful pieces” to take away from RPI Day 3 and there was much “food for thought” for you!
I especially liked that you have some important elements for implementing straight away (e.g. capturing evidence of reading mileage by learners) and sharing the coverage sheet for planning with your team. I totally agree that multimodal texts sets have huge affordances, not only for deepening processing through the different media (i.e. visual; audio; movement) but for their interactional effects (i.e. visual modes can add the kinds of description that print text don’t typically do as well).
I’m really looking forward to seeing your learners’ screencasts and hearing about how they engaged with the activity.
Have a fabulous Easter and term break!
Nga mihi
Naomi R.
Literacy Facilitator - Manaiakalani Reading Practice Intensive
Morena Rochelle
ReplyDeleteWhat a pleasure it is to hear your excitement in your voice about RPI sessions. You talked about the solidifying of your new learning and what that will bring to our akonga.
I have also observed a love of reading starting to develop in your classroom.
Looking forward to catching up soon!