Small Group Reading and Phonological Awareness Teaching- Zoom reflections.

 Before

• reading sounds
• making and breaking words

During

• focus on words
• rereading for comprehension
• choral/round robin

If fluent/ not decoding too easy

After

• activity from back of book

Lesson plans on TKI for Phonics Plus book. Can be taught over series of days.

Fun Facts resource Found in Taumata 5 but at all levels 3b.4 have a video showing this resource.

Using Colour wheel books as normal. There is no correlation as to where they will end up on colour wheel.

Module 3A4 is Small Group Reading 

Resource section has video for Literacy Tumble ideas.

Maggie Boston Readers

My takeaways for this week:

• Check out Fun Fact resources for other groups.
• Focus on Before reading teaching in small groups this week.
• Find out what are Maggie Boston Readers
• Teaching Fidelity Checklist- complete 1x week.

Phonological awareness Teaching

Mainly at Taumata 1-3

Research shows: 2-3 graphemes a week is more effective than one. Cycle back through.

• Crisp/clean sounds once.
• Matching phoneme to grapheme. 
• Encourage chn to see at mouth. 
• Use target word in sentence.
• Segmenting and Blending
• Model resources before giving chn their own board
• Actions (robot arms) can over load cognitive load. Phoneme fingers encouraged
• Class read aloud with shared decodable text.
• Use the key words in writing activities

My takeaways for this week:

- although I have been creating phonics based activities for independent tasks. Can I include a shared decodable text to simulate a writing activity?

-Go back through the resource section of learn and see what I can utilise in planning next week.