Hello Peeps,
I hope this finds you all well and taking a well deserved break! I just wanted to share some fantastic reading resources that I've been working with over the last year and a bit in my classroom (and within our school). Definitely worth the read if you can get your hands on them.
Gail and Joan, more commonly known as the "2 Sisters" are the names behind these resources and rather than me "ramble" on about how wonderful they are, take a read through their main two sites --> The 2 Sisters and The Daily Cafe. I also have a membership (well worth its money) with fantastic explicit teaching and professional development videos (which I share with the children as part of explicit teaching - great visual tool.) If your a FB'er (Face Booker - make sure you join the Daily 5 groups - Literacy and Maths!)
I hope this finds you all well and taking a well deserved break! I just wanted to share some fantastic reading resources that I've been working with over the last year and a bit in my classroom (and within our school). Definitely worth the read if you can get your hands on them.
Gail and Joan, more commonly known as the "2 Sisters" are the names behind these resources and rather than me "ramble" on about how wonderful they are, take a read through their main two sites --> The 2 Sisters and The Daily Cafe. I also have a membership (well worth its money) with fantastic explicit teaching and professional development videos (which I share with the children as part of explicit teaching - great visual tool.) If your a FB'er (Face Booker - make sure you join the Daily 5 groups - Literacy and Maths!)
CAFE is fantastic for your explicit teaching and revolves around assisting with strategies relating to Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Expand Vocabulary (hence the acronym CAFE). I have a copy of this always in my planner and my conferencing folder (and it has been adapted to Early, Emergent and Fluent readers).
Read more about CAFE by clicking HERE
The Daily 5 is part of the explicit Literacy Block and encompasses Read to Self, Partner Reading, Listen to Reading, Work on Words and Work on Writing. During this time, the teacher is conferencing with students (whereby goals are set and students talk about their strengths and weaknesses and what their new reading goal will be) and also offering small, explicit strategy groups in relation to the needs of the students in the classroom. Notice the use of the word "Strategy Group" rather than "Guided Group!"
The writer's workshop is also part of the program and I hope you are all having great success with your writer's notebooks during this time as well :-) I know my bustling group of 24 Year 1 children look forward to their daily writing and have taken to their writer's notebooks like there is no tomorrow!
The writer's workshop is also part of the program and I hope you are all having great success with your writer's notebooks during this time as well :-) I know my bustling group of 24 Year 1 children look forward to their daily writing and have taken to their writer's notebooks like there is no tomorrow!
My other two "BIBLES" are Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies by Sheena Cameron (brilliant resource for the key strategies of Activating Prior Knowledge, Self-Monitoring, Predicting, Questioning, Making Connections, Visualising, Inferring, Summarising and Synthesising).
and ... Debbie Diller's "Making the Most of Small Groups."
I hope at some stage you can grab the opportunity to locate these amongst your travels and have a good look through them :-)
Aside from that, I'm currently enjoying some pleasurable reading of Lone Wolf (Picoult's latest novel) and Me Before You in an attempt to read 52 books in 52 weeks! 14 down and 38 to go!
What are some of your "Teaching Bibles" that travel with you everywhere?
Aside from that, I'm currently enjoying some pleasurable reading of Lone Wolf (Picoult's latest novel) and Me Before You in an attempt to read 52 books in 52 weeks! 14 down and 38 to go!
