- Reading to students is extremely important
- Find a series to hook them in - it doesn't matter what the series as it will lead to further reading in the future
- Children should be in charge of their reading - let them choose
- Find a book that they love to read
Top 10 Global trends right now for books:
- Diversity themes - check out cool nukes by Des Hunt
- Science fiction, Fantasy and Adventure
- intriguing non fiction and sophisticated colouring books
- novels with cartoons
- Kid lit on screen
- War themes
- Humor is huge
- fun early readers format
- Graphic Novels - Gorillas in our Midst
- Pop Fiction
Lynden Cook - Writing
Learning pit - James Nottingham
Growth Mindset
Student Agency
Teacher role is the provoker and inspirer
Teachers role is also to explicit teaching
Students taking this to independence
Sequence - connect to students interest
- I have noticed . . . . . .
- Activivate prior knowledge - What do you know about . . . .
- Connect ideas What do you know? What does that mean? How do you know that? Do you think that?
- Did you know - Grow vocab, did you know facts
- Introduce the artifact/motivation (video etc)
- Planning talk - This reminds me of, I could explain how
- Writing cycle process
I want my writing to . . . . . (genre)
Explicit teaching
5/7 learners over four days
- Discover
- Compare/contrast start to form a success criteria in student language
- Collaborate with a partner
- Practice
check in with the students the following week to see if they are including the skills taught.
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