Louise Demspsey Phonics

 Make sure you have small group instruction.  You can do whole class but follow up in small group sessions.

Clusters instead of calling blends.

Stages

Stage 2 & 3

Free game you can use online.

Can use the first sound or even the last sound.

Stage 4

Make sure that kids know their vowels.  You can download this from the Yolanda Sorrel's site.

Full Circle Game

Stage 5

Make sure you slow down with this stage spend time on learning this.

Wa rule info

Ideas for teaching sounds.

Ideas to reinforce split digraphs. Make bake and change it to make.

Good rule to teach the children. Children really need to understand the vowels.  Rules are up on the youtube site.

This is an example of a full circle game. https://www.ictgames.com/

Stage 6

Nice idea to use poems to look for prefixs and suffixes.

Introduce root words to students as this can help them learn word meanings.

Te Reo for the Classroom - Hinewā Taurima & Makaore Wilson

 

This was an awesome toolkit and so helpful for me to use in my class. Love the sound bits and how we can go back and learn them.

Louise Dempsey Introduction to Decoding

 

Decode for comprehension.  Decoding is decoding, reading is comprehension.  

Sound research that acknowledges this is a sound system.  Great to hear that systems that I use are still valued. 

Helpful labels to support strategies in reading.

Continuous sounds you it isn't a short sound like ffff.  d is in your voice box and b is in your mouth.

Year 3 if still struggling go back and go over their vowels.  This is a handy card for them to use.  Can be downloaded from yolandasoryl.com

PD NZ History Curriculum

Online Toolkits- Using Socrative Questioning Technique

Online Toolkit Term 1 - Bling for your EduBlog

 

Teacher Only Day - Reading

This was a great course to look at what you have been doing or forgot to incorporate into your class.  

Here are a few images of ideas that really resonated with me and remind me of some good ideas.

Great idea to develop word knowledge.

I like this simple idea about the reading process.

Reminder about all the different comprehension strategies. Some need to be left for when they are older.

You need to be able to have a balanced reading program.  The idea of I do, We do and You do is a great and a simple way of looking at it.

These prompts would be great to support the discussion around what the students have been reading to help support them to develop the skills required to lead a group discussion and build on each others ideas around the reading topic.

Really like shared reading and how it opens up students to a wide rang of texts that they wouldn't read.  I also like how this is the place to teach strategies and when they come to the guided reading that is where they have the chance to practise them.

These last 2 ideas are around independent activities for after reading.  It is important to allow students to return to the text to help them deepen their ideas.