Guided Reading&

Target Students Owhata 18 June

Purposes for today

To review our guided reading programmes, including deliberate acts of teaching

To review our target students.

Being clear about• What you want the students to learn based on

identified need• How you will share the intended goal

• What the task will be

• Which instructional strategy will be the most effective

• How you and the student(s) will know the learning has taken place

Reflecting

• How has specific planning around DATs influenced your teaching of GR since the last staff meeting?

• What were the effects of what you did?

• What happened that you didn’t expect?

• How well are the students applying literacy strategies as they read?

• What resources are the most successful ?

• What are the gaps?

• How are you incorporating the messages from Ka Hikitia?

It’s about being

DeliberatePurposefulStructured

Reflective practitioners not only ask questions routinely and deliberately, but they also use the answers to these questions to guide and

change their instructional practices so they can be more effective.

Monitoring Target Students

• What evidence are you basing the needs of this group on?

• What have been the shifts in student achievement?• What instructional strategies/teaching approaches have

been effective in raising target student achievement?• What now? Why? What are you basing this on?• Are the students accelerating at the expected rate?

What is this?• Will this need to increase for them to catch up?• What are your own learning needs at this point?

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s

skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

— Victor Hugo