Keeping Up with Mrs Faalili

Name of Course/Programme/Seminar: A balanced reading programme - reviewing the approaches Provider/Presenter: Sheena Cameron & Louise Dempsey If I was to summarise the key things I took away from this Professional Development what would they be and why? The importance of Shared Reading Guided sessions compliment the learning in shared reading Explicit teaching of reading is important at all levels Top 3 comprehension strategies; self monitoring, summarising and inferring Have a balanced reading programme Start reading lessons with proverbs to encourage critical thinking Reading process - critical thinking, cracking the code, comprehension How has this professional development challenged my thinking? This PLD reminded me of how important Reading is. It's excited me to get into my planning and teaching of Reading The need to reintroduce Shared Reading to my programme and to use shared reading to support the learning in guided reading. What aspects of my practice ...

Plan and conduct detailed inquiry  into  specific aspects of your current teaching  that are  relevant to the hypotheses you identified in the literature. Prior to lockdown, implementation of Daily 5 was the new intervention for me this year. Although it may not seem like an intervention as such, I wanted to develop independent readers and writers who had the stamina to be able to read and write for longer periods of time. It took most part of Term 1 before lockdown kicked in. We maintained this the best we could through online learning and intend to do so throughout the year, and if the unlikely events of another lockdown. A huge focus for me and my teaching has been on 'Work on Writing' and 'Word work' and how to use this time effectively during our Daily 5. Time was given to unpacking what it looks like for them, the learner and me, the teacher. Here's what we came up with (and are now constantly used in our classroom) a - Formative information abou...