Plan to reach reading targets

It is now term 4 and a big push is needed to hit our reading targets.  

Big questions:

What is required to hit our targets.

To hit our targets we need to move through the reading levels.

How can my practice change to help students achieve these targets.

I need to provide more opportunities for reading, that is with the teacher, in groups, with buddies and independently.

I need to provide a larger range of texts e.g. not just covering yellow 1 (level 6) and then moving onto yellow 2 (level 7) a few weeks later. I will begin to provide 3 levels of reader each week to be read with myself e.g. Yellow 1,2 & 3 (Lv 6,7 &8)

Running along side this I will provide 3 sunshine classic books per day at the different levels and on a daily basis check the reading results. When I notice similar errors I will use this to guide my teaching practice. Once a week as a group they will also read a chosen book and complete the activities during guided reading time with the teacher.

After each guided reading session the students will go and read their book again as a group.

On Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays we will buddy read with room 2.

Rethinking my practice

My team leader shared her folder with me from a recent workshop from the Auckland literacy Expo for teachers which involved exploring the writer in the reading and the reader in the writing.

The Effective literacy practice in years 5-8 have undertaken studies that show that teachers who have a firm grasp  of the reciprocal relationship between writing and reading and who continually make explicit connections to their students between reading and writing are the teachers whom exemplify 'best Practice'.

In Room three during big book, poem and guided reading we continually consider grapho-phonic sources of information when both reading and writing. We are also looking to locate the different types of punctuation and how these change our understanding of a text.

We also look at features in writing such as "describers" and how these help the reader to get an image in their head of the characters etc. Here we are looking at our poem for the week and finding the describers that the author has used.