Thursday, May 12, 2016

How can I accelerate progress in boys Writing?

I did a focus lesson with a small group of 3 boys today. I know that 1 in particular is crazy about dinosaurs and this encourages the other boys to play and talk about dinosaurs with him.
Today I showed them a picture from a book I have read to them a few times with dinosaur fighting a boy with a sword.
During their think pair share time I heard some amazing language for example- shiny sword, sharp and pointy teeth. The sentence that I was most blown away by was " This human tastes like sausage." (To which we added roared the dinosaur).
I have been putting a big focus on feeding and building on vocabulary and I can see this developing very quickly.
After they finished writing with me I sent them outside to write some basic sight words and the young boys who loves dinosaurs came running in to show me this piece of writing.


"I like dinosaurs"
Therefore I am going to accelerate boys Writing progress in my class by using exciting and engaging topics and really building on oral language before they begin writing. 



Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Co- teaching writing session

This morning I had a co teaching session with Paula Were. I found this incredibly useful. I loved seeing somebody else work with my students because I feel like I had gotten into a routine. There were a few things I have chosen to focus on these are:

  • Pace and urgency- Less scaffolding because they already know E.G. full stops and the word the 
  • Only focus on the WALT - Not all things on the writing prompt card
  • More focus on oral language- More buddy talk and teacher modelling the vocabulary 
These things are small changes that I am going to start using tomorrow.  Here are some pictures of the work they produced today.