Since hearing from the reading recovery team I have been implementing the findings. One very valuable tip was for at writing time. We have always shared our story before writing, planned through the use of a picture and then come back together to write a shared story together before the students then go off independently to write their story. Big difference not only do we use our Yolanda cards but as shared by the reading recovery team we provide a piece of scrap paper for the unknown words. this allows students to write the sounds they can hear for the whole word before entering this into their book. We have been following this structure for the past 5 weeks and here are the results that I would like to share:
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