1. Learning AiZ Learning Leaders Session 7 Sandra Pizaro 1

2. Learning  Reviewing between session activity of session 6  Reflection on practices, skills and strategies needed by students and teachers. Sandra Pizaro Agenda 2

3. Learning  What professional reading did you do in the past two weeks?  Why were these chosen?  What did you learn from them?  Discuss the data you passed on to your colleagues  What strategies or skills did you discuss?  Did you trial a different teaching practice? 3 Sandra Pizaro

4. Learning  Explored in the first and 6 th session.  The evidence showed:- Making inferences  Infer Working out meaning of words and phrases  Context clues Making links between directly stated ideas in a text  Making connections Sandra Pizaro 4    Difficult Most difficult

5. Learning  VELS Standards, Progression Points, Continuum  Professional reading variety of resources  How can this information be carried forward? 5 Sandra Pizaro

6. Learning Sandra Pizaro  How was the data used?  How did you support the staff to develop an understanding of the use of data?  What did you find were the areas of concern? 6

7. Learning 7 Sandra Pizaro

8. Learning 1. 1. The Student 2. 2. The Text - (reading, writing, speaking and listening) 3. 3. The Purpose / The Focus  Explicit teaching Sandra Pizaro 8

9. Learning  Routines / Process  What does this mean? How does having a routine support learning? Discuss  Individual Strategies  What strategies are in place and what strategies will come next? Discuss  Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, Evaluate = e5 Sandra Pizaro 9

10. Learning Essential Elements  Getting Knowledge Ready  Vocabulary  Paraphrasing  Summarising  Reading aloud / Visualising  Questioning / questions  Reviewing / reflection  Explicit teaching  across the strategies for comprehension  Constructing the meaning Constructing meaning Sandra Pizaro 10 Whole group discussion

11. Learning  Getting Knowledge Ready  Vocabulary  Paraphrasing  Summarising  Reading aloud / Visualising  Questioning / questions  Reviewing / reflection  What needs to be taught to improve…? Sandra Pizaro 11

12. Learning  Make links between directly stated ideas in a text.  Work out the meaning of phrases (words) in context.  Infer messages in any communication. Infer messages in any communication. What ideas can be found using the resources?  Strategies That Work – Harvey and Goudvis  Teaching Comprehension 6 – 9  LIST ON THE TEMPLATE LIST ON THE TEMPLATE 12 Sandra Pizaro

13. Learning What have you found?  Review Professional Reading Sandra Pizaro 13

14. Learning  Building Vocabulary Word splash Word lists – class or personal  Applying word knowledge in reading and writing? Sandra Pizaro 14

15. Learning  Visualising has 3 levels:-  Context Level  Sentence Level  Word Level (vocabulary) Sandra Pizaro 15

16. Learning  What teaching strategies are used to engage?  Importance of wait time  Listen to the student and don’t repeat.  Levels of questioning  Bloom’s Taxonomy of questions Sandra Pizaro 16

17. Learning  Finding the key words  Note taking  Retelling  Building summarising skills  delete, substitute, keep  Hint: - Use known texts to develop paraphrasing and summarising skills – concentrate on the learning of the new strategy not the content and the strategy. Sandra Pizaro 17

18. Learning  Online Resources  Inanimate Alice Inanimate Alice  On line Library On line Library Sandra Pizaro 18