RPI Session 8: Creating

 RPI Session 8: Creating 

Today's RPI session was all about creating in reading. 

A good reminder about all the different variety of what creativity looks like. I am not the most artistically gifted person and I seem to connect creativity to art, but this is evidence that it is not restricted to visual art.

Building on creating well rounded strong readers, taking part in a create activity related to a text proves that you understand the text well. 

Create task register: It is always awesome to see the different activities that others come up with and I look forward to digging into those to see different ideas. 

Explore different create tasks:

- I want to get students to create a video using drawings to retell the story. 

Awesome idea for students to be able to see themselves in the create activities. 

Creating the book trailer: I loved the fun activity. It was a little bit uncomfortable but a good challenge and interesting way to share and recommend a book to someone. I look forward to including this into planning and it will be great to offer students the opportunity to collaborate while doing this review, will be nice to get different perspectives of the text. 

Piggybook - extended metaphor. I am going to look in our school's library to see if we have it and read it to my class. 

Overall I am excited to plan reading going forward as now I feel like I have a wider range of ideas for different create activities that incorporate different resources and materials. I am looking forward to getting children to record themselves reading so they can hear themselves reading with fluency and expression. 

The padlet activity was a nice reminder that everyone is working on different things and to not feel overwhelmed with all of the resources provided and shared today.

RPI Session 7: Thinking

 RPI Session 7: Thinking

Awesome visual of the different levels of thinking. It was interesting to hear this being unpacked and to think about what my different ākonga are doing when they are thinking and reading texts. Interpretive and evaluative are the higher order thinking skills being referenced throughout the day. Reminder to push students to read between and beyond the lines, and show don't tell. 

Really interested in reading this text as a whole class - will implement it in my planning for shared reading next week so that all students can experience higher order thinking, whether it is a students personal idea or thought/ what they hear another peer share. We saw some awesome vocabulary based activities with words plucked from the text so that will be handy to have those resources already up my sleeve. 

Analysis vs summarising:

- Summarising paraphrasing into fewer words

- Analysis: examining subject from different elements, or breaking it into different perspectives - supports to extend and deepen understanding

Important to note that at all levels need to be looking at and unpacking language features.

 

Activity - provocation: "To be brave you have to be scared." 

I thoroughly enjoyed this activity debating this with the breakout group. There were two sides to the argument but it was clear that either side could completely understand the other groups perspective, and collectively we were in agreement with a slightly different definition of bravery and the feelings including, but not exclusive to being scared are closely linked with bravery. 

I have found it difficult to find a provocation in the any text I chose for ākonga next week - likely due to the level of texts. I look forward to incorporating a provocation and discussion into the programme when we are reading texts that have strong themes which would inspire an appropriate and provocation. 

Today's session was a good reminder that we need to continue to push for extended discussion and critical literacy. I think my next step is to figure out what critical literacy will look like in my classroom and how I can simplify/adapt activities to suit Year 3 & 4 learners. Continuing to push the vocabulary focus I have been maintaining since Day 6 as well as extended discussion with a focus on critical literacy will certainly keep us busy!