Today I began my journey in the Reading Practice Intensive programme. This course will allow me to better my practice to ensure I give my students the best learning opportunities I can.
Today has given me many opportunities to think about my practice, how I teach in the classroom and ideas that I can take forward. We started by looking at What is a good reader?
This encouraged us to reflect on ourselves and our students. This task made us reflect on our students but also ourselves as we are readers too. We thought about the qualities and the characteristics of this and how we meet these in the classroom.
One thing that came up repeatedly was how we are giving our students choice and ownership. In the reading of Reading Motivation: What the Research Says, they stated that "Student motivation is a key factor in successful reading." The motivation of students is influenced by their teachers, their peers and themselves. How we teach them can influence this. This made me think about I interact with my students and the disposition I display towards reading.
One resource that I will be taking away and looking forward to using is the student survey on Reading and how they read. This will be something that will give me vital information and will influence and affect how I plan. This will also be a segway into setting up group discussions in their reading groups. Following the structure, today of Toss n Talk, I will use this to teach them extended discussion.
In one of our examples today, we were shown how a teacher used the results from her class as a text to analyse. Full of data, she taught the students how to analyse information in a reading setting when the context would have been maths. Seeing something as simple as this has allowed me to think of ways that I could incorporate statistics into reading or vice versa.
Kia ora Paige
ReplyDeleteIt was lovely to meet you again on Friday. Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful blogpost.
I look forward to hearing how your Reading Survey goes and the results that you receive. Do you think that you will share this data with the class and use it as a piece of text during Guided Reading? It will definitely help to increase students vocabulary by using statistical findings as a text.
Yes, choice and ownership over the text that children read is vital to help them grow to be successful readers. I am sure the children will enjoy sharing what they are reading with each other and you will also have all this information from the Reading Survey - how good!
Have a great few weeks and I look forward to hearing how your survey goes.
Nga mihi
Anna
Literacy Facilitator – Manaialkalani Reading Practice Intensive
Kia ora Paige,
ReplyDeleteHow fantastic that you get this incredible pd. I'm a little jealous! It sounds like a day that was filled with things to consider as you navigate reading with your students. I think the feelings and how we show our love of reading is so important but great to have that backed up by research.
I am interested to know how you use the data you gather. I imagine that if you decide to use the idea of 'reading' the data with your class it could lead to some fascinating places. Keep us in the loop!
Keep up the great learning and blogging,
:) Sharon - Te Ara Tūhura Education Programme Leader