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Category Archives: Reading
Inferencing in the early years
This week I’m writing about inferencing. It’s nearly 5 months into the Australian academic year for our Foundation to Year 2 students and teachers have built Reading Workshops where students build sufficient reading stamina for guided groups to run, where learning … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Teaching, trainee teachers, Uncategorized
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Meaningful Reading Comprehension – students doing the work!
This is a year 2 boy’s attempt to infer the meaning of words in a non fiction book of his choosing. Both the teacher and I thought this a really good artefact to show his reading comprehension development. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Instruction, Reading, Teaching
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What might Benjamin Franklin have to say to our young students?
At Monday’s school assembly I used Benjamin Franklin’s story to talk about the importance of effort and persistence as we strive for personal excellence. “energy and persistence conquer all things” Benjamin Franklin I talked about his childhood days in … Continue reading
Posted in history, Leadership, Reading, school, Teaching, Video Clips
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Keeping earlier improvements alive – a constant juggling act for school leaders.
Have you ever wondered how you keep earlier improvement work on the slow boil whilst undertaking more recent deeper work? I know this is a constant challenge for school leaders particularly as new teachers who often unfamiliar with the earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Feedback, Leadership, Reading, Teaching
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When more is not good – lesson intentions can make a difference
At year level leadership meetings we often read and discuss shared articles or writing from noted educators. Last week we discussed chapter two of Shirley Clarke’s book on feedback titled “Learning Intentions”. One of her opening lines is “It is … Continue reading
An advocate for reciprocal teaching – or hearing student voice in your classroom.
When I first listened to this address by 12 yo Adora I was rather skeptical and amazed. Her use of language is amazing but her message is simply. We need to hear student voice in curriculum development – so if … Continue reading
Reading comprehension scaffolded for older students.
At our regular team leaders meeting where we gain an overview of curriculum planning across the school we discussed what readers workshops look like for older primary aged students. Our problem of practice started out about identifying what students are … Continue reading
Posted in curriculum, Instruction, Reading, Teaching, Uncategorized, Video Clips
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League tables
Over the past week newspapers all over Australia have featured articles and editorials on the Federal Governments new tax payer funded website “My School” which will allow parents [and others] to see how their schools rates against the national average … Continue reading
Posted in Industrial Issues, politics, Reading, school
Tagged http://www.education.vic.gov.au/aboutschool/schoolreports/default.htm, http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2009/dec/01/primary-league-tables-unfair, http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/schools-to-get-online-grading/story-e6frf7l6-1225823472962, http://www.myschool.edu.au/, http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/parents-tick-school-data-site-20100123-mrqn.html, http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/teachers-to-make-stand-on-ranking-20100118-mgoq.html, http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/website-to-expose-coasting-schools-20100125-muhr.html, http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/testing-time-for-teachers-20100120-mlnv.html, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/why-school-league-tables-will-not-work/story-e6frg6zo-1225822680095
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How far have we come as teachers in using technology to engage learners?
Have a quick flick through this presentation as we in Australia shut down for the summer school holiday period. I’m reminded of a now famous quote “Yes we can” when I see this. I remember as far back as the … Continue reading
Teachers do not teach comprehension they test it.
Last week I attended a presentation by Di Snowballwho has recently returned from working in schools in the States for over 16 years. Di has been contracted to work in some regions in Victoria to hlep “struggling” schools, I gather, however … Continue reading
Posted in Instruction, Leadership, Reading, school, Uncategorized
Tagged http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au/teachingcomprehension/faqs.html, http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/329, http://www.reading.org/Publish.aspx?page=bk177-13-Pressley_7.html&mode=retrieve&D=10.1598/0872071774.13&F=bk177-13-Pressley_7.html&key=FBC2E8D8-2042-400A-BDD5-CF1499C66308
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Teaching Reading Clips
We have discovered this wonderful resources from the Canadian Curriculum Services which has great web casts with similar challenges to our schools: http://www.curriculum.org/secretariat/april18.shtml We have been revising our understandings about reading instruction and what certain teaching strategies look and sound … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, school, Teaching, Video Clips
Tagged http://www.curriculum.org/secretariat/april18.shtml
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A new model for “Writing” is needed in schools.
It seems writing is now more in focus than reading. Over the last 6 months I have heard and read a great deal about the power of writing and how the model needs to change in schools. I wrote about … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Reading, school, Teaching, Uncategorized, writing
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Reading Comprehension Strategies made explicit in classrooms
I visited Matthew Needlemans blog and really like the way his is trying to get his students to anchor their reading comprehension skills through the creation of posters that students can connect to. Often charts displayed in rooms don’t provide … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Teaching, Uncategorized
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Making a difference by Douglas Reeves.
I was fortunate to hear Douglas Reeves for the second time at the recent ACEL conference in Melbourne. He is the founder and chief executive officer of the Center for Performance Assessment, an organization dedicated to improving student achievement and … Continue reading
School improvement is not unlike peeling an onion – the jouney is layered and may produce tears .
At most weekly leadership meetings we agenda a discussion on a published research paper distributed and read prior to meeting and this week it was the 90/90/90 Schools: A Case Study article. The article written by two journalists was based on research … Continue reading