This is just what I needed, a reminder of all the amazing activities there are to encourage students to engage in their literacy.
We zoomed through some ideas of how to use retelling to support comprehension, oral language and support writing.
What is important is quality over quantity. <=>
Work should be engaging - scaffolded - and feedback given.
In a balanced reading programme you will have:
Modelled Reading (I do)
Shared Reading (We do)
Modelled Reading (We do)
Guided Reading (You do)
These approaches are not linear and should be short in focussed time.
Reading is also divided into 3 groups: Reading for pleasure, reading to support writing and reading to learn.
For writing, there are 3 categories: Mini-Lessons, quick writing and writing lessons.
The Literacy Place
On this website, there are numerous resources and lesson plans. Including ideas around how to support oral language.
Ideas that I really liked and want to try are:
Prompt strips
Ice-block sticks (writing sentences from a story and students have to order them)
Retelling squares (Beginning, middle and end)
Pizza retell
Story Boards
Story Maps
3D Story maps
Map it - quick writing
Call a friend
Talking strip
Story making frames
visual summary
Senses summary
Sequence map.
These activities will especially be helpful with my students that are struggling with writing. It is crucial that I do oral language activities to support their writing, as learned in ALL and TESSOL. Looking forward to introducing some of these activities when we go back to school.
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