The hard part of making the switch to Whole Class Guided Reading is deciding to do it. Once you have committed to diving into it whole heartedly, the teaching, resourcing and assessment comes easily. In this post, I offer 5 steps for covering to whole class guided reading. Click here to see why and how I made the switch… Read More 5 Steps for Converting to Whole Class Guided Reading
Hello all, Halfway through week 3 of teaching in Ireland and I’m only getting to grips with things on a basic level. As I trained in the UK, I always looked forward to teaching in Ireland because I’d been told there was “so much less paperwork, minimal planning and lower expectations”. Despite this, I’m feeling… Read More “Teaching in Ireland is easier”…then why do I feel like an NQT?
Securing a teaching job in Ireland is hard! I’m now home in Ireland since the end of June and have applied for close to 40 jobs. I’m no closer (at this moment) to securing a job for the next academic year and that worries me! I’ve not lived in Ireland for 5 years now and… Read More Applying for Jobs in Ireland: What I’ve Learned
As mentioned in previous posts, Whole Class Guided Reading: Scratching the Surface and Making a Start and Teaching Essential Reading Skills Beyond the Words, teaching inference skills to children is very complex and takes a lot of patience and guidance. To “infer” information from a text requires an awful lot of higher-order thinking, to which a lot of… Read More Teaching Inference through Pictures
As you may have noticed, I’ve mainly focused my attention on reading this term in my classroom. I’ve invested my spare time into researching and trying out different methods to hone in on these very important reading skills that my kids are struggling with. This post will shed light on some of the different ways… Read More Teaching Essential Reading Skills Beyond the Words
A very informative post! Thanks for sharing!
In my past two posts Guided Reading: How and Why and Whole Class Guided Reading: Scratching the Surface and Making a Start, I have scratched the surface on how I approach Whole Class Guided Reading. In this post, I am to outline exactly how a week of lessons look in my class from planning to activities, to… Read More Whole Class Guided Reading: A Week Of
As the title suggests, I’m making a start at teaching Whole Class Guided Reading, having read many different blog posts and articles on this strategy. To be perfectly honest, I was never a big fan of “The Carousel” for Guided Reading, as I found most of the children weren’t actually reading or improving their reading… Read More Whole Class Guided Reading: Scratching the Surface and Making a Start
One of the areas of teaching that took me longest to get my head around when I was an NQT and RQT was Guided Reading. No matter how in-depth I read the plan, no matter how many lessons I observed, I just couldn’t make it work in my class. How did I keep the rest of the class on… Read More Guided Reading: How and Why
As it’s World Book Day today, I feel I should put together a post of how we celebrated World Book Week (back in October). In Qatar, we do things a little differently and celebrated ‘Book Week’ for an entire week, engaging in book related activities! It was a lot of fun and really promoted a… Read More World Book Day: What we did.