RPI Day #6

 Day 6 Reading Practice Intensive

Vocabulary and Decoding

Ideas from sharing - Use AI to create an image to go with writing. 

Literacy Planet - may not be able to assign tasks, but if we have the right level, it will give them texts at their level. 

Instead of asking, are you finished? Ask, is it ready to be shared?

Fiona Grant's Share

A robust vocabulary improves all areas of communcation - listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Some apps to check out - Word wall, vocabulary.com and Quizlet. These are not a substitute for rich and explicit teaching. Ākonga can create their own examples of Match Up activities. 

Check out the Cybersmart Challenges for the invisible ink activity. Us the highlight and define feature. Links but not links...smart chips can open a video. Use also for beginning to reference. This will be great for keeping ākonga in the one place and they won't need to jump in and out of pages.

Book recommendations - 

Link to site

I love this. We were doing recommendations verbally, which I still want to do, but I think I can use both. I could do the verbal ones and model how to complete the book recommendations sheet from this.

Maintenance Recap - Out of 5 - Am I Doing This? 1 is the highest score.

Pre-reading - 1

Making Words Visible - 4

Clarifying Meaning - 2

Independent Follow-Up - 2

Word Wall - 5 

The Word Knowledge Organiser 

For this, we inserted an anonymous tick to show our understanding of each word. This is great for a diagnostic assessment to see which vocabulary we need to focus on. You can also do an 'after reading' one too. 

Traffic Light Activity - Using colour coding our understanding level of a list of words. 

Semantics - Meaning of words

Orthography - Letter arrangement of words, like spelling. 

Phonology - Pronunciation and what the word sounds like. 

Ology - The study of...

Lexicon - Lexis 

Writing the definition activity is overused. The grand piano context activity. 

Digital supports

Implicit vs Explicit Instruction - Don't leave it to chance. 

Fast Mapping vs Extended Mapping

It takes seven exposures for ākonga to learn the meaning of the word and sometimes we need extended mapping, or long term use of the word.

Key Approaches  to Explicit Vocabulary Instruction

• Building word consciousness

• Deliberate, robust teaching of words 

• Skills for cracking unfamiliar words

Morphology (incl. its importance in subject disciplines)

How can I develop consistency with including vocabulary within my programme?

Confabrholarious - what does this mean and why do I think that? Pull words apart to help understand them better.

Word Consciousness - What is it?

An interest and awareness of words.

Make opportunities to - 

Pause and express interest or value of specific words.

Ask learners to watch for high vlaue or survival words.

Challenge learners to use high-interest words.

Collect and disaply words.

Be word wizards or magpies.

Create opportunities for fun with words by using rebus puzzles, puns, homophones, idioms etc.

Using word puzzles helps to build abstract thinking. 

What do you predict are the 5 principles of robust vocabulary instruction?

Clarity in the explanations.

Different modes like visuals.

The Actual - 

Direct explanation in a learner friendly way.

Thought provoking connections to meanings in students' lived experiences.

Playful use of words 9e.g. word consciousness)

Interactive engagement.

Follow up (multiple encounters). At least seven.

Recap: Which Words

Tier 2 words are the ones we probably want to focus on as they may not be in everyday language. Tier 3 are words that are content and topic specific. Ākonga require about 700 words a year. 

In groups, we went through a text and popped words into Tier 1, 2 or 3. This was really good because I have never actually separated words into the different tiers. 

Be mindful of hurdles. Too much challenge within the text can be difficult and be too much for cognitive load. Use the identifying target words for the week -

It's important to work how how many words we will focus on throughout a week. Dictionary definitions can be problematic. 

I like the Hypothetocally - When might you? slide. The would you rather activity helps to use certain vocabulary

I found the activity where we created our own activities was cool.

Decoding 

Understanding phonemes is fundamental to being able to cracking the code. 

A next step for me: Add Phoneme section to The Code Spelling slides. 

Syllables come in at this level. Syllables are unbroken vowel sounds. Use the hand under the chin thing to count how many times your jaw drops. 

Syllable Division Video - Learning MATTERS Leap into Literacy activities - Syllable Division

Skill Builder - Questioning

Morphology

Morphology is the study of morphemes, the smallest units of language that have identifiable meaning or function.

Types of morphemes include prefixes, suffixes, and root/bases. 

Morphological awareness gives readers a powerful tool for readin and literacy improvement more generally.

Vocabulary Comprehension

Chunking or reading the word aloud)

Spelling

Reading comprehension.

Compound words - there are three types. open, closed and hyphenated. 

I like the prefix pockets. Look at the high-frequency prefixes and suffixes occur in 58% of words. 

My Reflection & Plan -

What long term plan do you have to systematically develop learners' knowledge of morphology?

What prefixes, suffixes and root word learning in planned for Term 3?

What morphology progressions are you following?

My next steps are:

-Move the hub korowai so I can use that wall space as a word wall.

-Organise vocabulary from texts using the three tiers, with a focus on Tier 2 and 3. 

-Plan for deliberate moments to build word consciousness. 

-I also need to update my teacher workbook for topics/themes for Term Four.