Literacy in my classroom

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Using the CAFE and

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Whole class CAF 15 minutes caf strategy and/or revising previously taught Focus: Introducing a new
strategy. I use online stories on the Interactive White Board (using Oxford Owl or 12/6/12 similar resources) or Big Books, to model the strategy.

Read to Self 15 minutes

Students read Just Right Books that they have selected from the Classroom library. During Reading Conferences I monitor students book choices. During this time I hold small (10 min) Reading Strategy Groups. The focus has been determined during the previous weeks Guided Reading sessions. During this time students are introduced to their new reading goal, and are explicitly taught the strategy that they need to work on and are given the opportunity to practise it. They are given a book mark with their goal on it.

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Word Work Rotations 30minutes

Activities include: Spelling investigations Comprehension activities Guided Reading texts Listen to reading (using iPad, MP3 or CD player) VCOP tasks (focusing on Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers & Punctuation) All activities are differentiated to cater for the ability levels and needs of individual students) During this time I hold guided reading sessions. Every week students have an explicit strategy to work on and this is documented and used to group students 12/6/12 according to common area of need.

What My Daily 5 Rotations look like

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Work on Writing- 50 minutes

Structure:

Whole Class Introduction. Share modelled writing with whole class. Individual writing for approximately 20 minutes.
Interactive Writing

writing groups held regularly to support individual writing needs. conferences are used to determine individual writing goals and future strategy groups.
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Strategy

groups are held to explicitly teach

Interactive Writing in my class

Journal Writing Focus: Using connectives and & because Model: I model and students add to construct a 12/6/12 sentence.

My Reflection

Positive Student learning is goal orientated All tasks a differentiated Reading strategies a explicitly taught Student are able to articulate their goals

Minus Can be tricky to fit all in each morning Havent yet found a system to cater for Writing tasks in the Daily 5. However this year (2012) I have started with small comprehension

Interesting I would like to allow student choice over Daily 5 and ownership of learning. Reading goals on bookmarks ensure students are reminded of what 12/6/12 their reading goals