Vocabulary (and decoding)
Listening to Dorothy talk about different apps for vocab. It would be awesome for students to create some vocabulary activities to be used when we start our Tuakana-Teina library sessions with a new entrant class.
- A good reminder that there are lists of interesting vocab used in all school journal articles. Need to tap into this when planning guided reading follow up activities.
- Using smart chips to insert a map so they can understand where the place they are reading about is located.
- Using the explore tool to unpack unknown words.
I am really looking forward to using the word knowledge organisers both before and after reading next term.
I am going to add the cambridge dictionary to our site and just.prounounce as well. This will be awesome to support children to break down the barrier of how to say these words - after they have been explicitly taught it.
I would like to start doing wordle with my class at the beginning of everyday to integrate that problem solving and understanding letter combinations in words - as well as discover the definition of unknown words together. I think it will be tricky to begin with but after we do it a couple of times the students will become familiar with the process of it.
Rebus patterns - these activities were awesome to do together - it could be interesting to do with smaller groups and watch them figure it out together and convince each other why. I wonder if this is an activity that we could do with buddy classes.
Robust, interactive vocabulary approaches reflection: This was a great activity to force you to consider things and related it to your own personal experiences. I have made copies of these and will plan to use these relating to the texts we read in shared reading so that all learners experience those words and activities.
Decoding:
Such a good idea to share this with students so they can self-assess their reading. Will look to begin this next term.
The resource register is awesome and there is a wide range of very helpful activities. I have made copies/notes of some which my ākonga will benefit from. I plan on sharing these with my team.
