New Insights

We have met together many times since out first meeting. Each time we meet together we share the explain everything activities we have made and reflect on how they meet the reading progressions for that level. Ideas we have found effective include using garage band to give instructions on our explain everything activities, using garage band to say spelling words and then students write the word next to them, and including a variety of tasks in each activity. This could include word attack tasks, for example choose a blend I want the students to work on, they then need to find all the words in the text starting with that blend.

Sequencing sentences or pictures to help us retell our reading, punctuating a text, recording themselves reading it, then listening back for fluency have all been successfully trialled.

Inquiry Presentation

Inquiry

I am Rachel Trimble, a second year beginning teacher at Pt England School. I am working with Michelle George who is completing her Masters Degree. We have realised we are all starting from scratch with explain everything and we are wanting our students to be cognitively engaged when they do their activities independently. I am wanting to create higher order thinking reading activities, that students can do independently.