Kate in Action

... a retrospective post.

Thursday Week 4 Term 3

As part of our reflective practice as teacher's this term we are all going around and observing in other classrooms or having others critically observe our own teaching practice to provide feedback.

Thank you Kate Machlachlan for the opportunity to watch your Guided reading lesson!

Ideas and observations:
-Key focus for the lesson was suffixes and prefixes.
-Key word list was resvised with the children on the laptop before beginning the book.
-This word list was made available and introduced to the students before the lesson/ beginning the book.
Idea - Make a list on the ipad/ modelling book
Idea - Use the ipad/ explain everything as a reading modelling book
-All children had notebooks, pencils and/ chromebooks with them in preparation for the lesson.
-At the beginning of each lesson the word list was revised.
-'Experts' were called on for specific word knowledge.
-Word associations discussed
-Follow up tasks were specific to story (eg. article and fact finding)
-Children could access video links that gave them living examples of the story and provided extended knowledge and facts.

To follow up:
-Revise the SHARP Hilton Aery program
-Set up notebooks for turquoise and above groups