Talei's blog

It was good to be reminded today of all the different tools and 'tricks' that can be used within Google Docs. I will need to refresh myself on this and teach some of these to my students. I especially liked being reminded of the citing function within Google Docs and think this will be good to show my literacy group as that is a skill they will be using once they go to high school or even further, to university. Listening to all the different ideas of how you can teach different aspect of vocabulary and how important it is for understanding has shown me that I do minimal work in teaching vocab. This is something I am looking forward to bringing more into my lessons. With this I would like to explore Wordwall more and see how this can assist me in my teaching.  I particularly liked the word knowledge scale and think this could be something I use with my learners, not only for me but so the students can see the progress they make with understanding words. I have lots of ideas flo...

 Planning a Reading Programme. Unfortunately, I had Covid during this week and only made it through half of the day.  What I did take away from this day is that I need to make a literacy timetable that is visible to the students. At the moment, my literacy group knows what is expected from them and when they need to get work completed, however, I can see the benefit of having a visible timetable for both my students and myself. What I am struggling with is how to make it so it works for both myself, my students, and within the studio. I really enjoyed the creating suspense activity and have used a similar one in past years. I would like to do this with my readers and help them make that link between what they are reading and how they can use that within their writing.  Because I did not complete this session, I feel like I am behind and did not complete all of the homework. I am hoping to catch up with this before day 7.