Talei's blog

Today we were looking at text selection and building a set of texts. For me today was a lot of reminding me of things I have learnt previously but through the years, for various reasons, I have either forgotten about them or haven't used them to their full extent. One thing I don't think I have been using well recently is having multi-modal texts. It was great today to go back through this and think about how I can use these within the task board and how I could use videos to preload some prior knowledge before a guided reading session. This also reminded me of ETV and I've thought about how I could use this as an independent reading task with a video. Being able to put questions through the video that the students have to answer will show me the students who are actually watching the videos and what understanding they are getting from the video.  Today I have also been thinking about different novels I could do with the students. In particular either Goodnight Mr Tom or Th...

 In this session, I have been reminded about what information I can use from the PAT results and how I can use that for my planning and targeted teaching. I will definitely do this and use it alongside HERO to help with my planning. I will also be trying to make sure I use student voices when thinking about success criteria and putting it to them what they think will show they have been successful in their learning. I'm hoping this will give them more accountability for their learning and also give them a sense of accomplishment when they can see that they have been successful.  At the beginning of the day, we heard how a teacher used podcasts (when they were first new) to encourage and excite readers about reading. I was wondering if I would be able to do this using TikTok and getting them to create book reviews for it. Later in the day we then heard from another teacher who had actually done this. I think it would engage some of my reluctant students and I think it would be ...