Reading Roles-Author's Purpose

Another workshop I have ran this week was on a new reading role we decided to make. After having learning conversation about reading we found that one of the main goals students were identifying from there reading matrix was identifying the author's purpose. So we decided (the students and I) that by making it into a role would be a more effective way of practising and learning more about it.

I ran a workshop based around Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. We focused our discussions around three questions and recorded our ideas on A3 paper.

3 Main questions:
What does the author want you to believe about the story?
Do you agree with the author on the main point?
What has not been said?

Reading

This term I have starting running some reading workshops. I have based these on the things they identified during our learning conversations. I have made a list of all the headings/goals they identified and then wrote the students names under the goals they choose. These will be some of the workshops I run. I have also run some workshops on Book Club roles they need more support with and also some new roles. One goal identified with all students is they need to work on is extending their reading mileage into a range of texts. So I held a workshop on peoms and fairytales. First we read some of the books then we talked about what makes a poem a poem and what makes a fairytale a fairytale. When then listed any similarities. I think its important students can identify the different parts of different texts aswell as the purpose of the text. Here are some of our ideas:

Student feedback

This term my goal is to improve on my personal reflections. I started ding reflections at the start of the year but slowing stopped completing them. At the end of Term 1 I got the students to fill in a survey about how I had started the year. I have linked the survey below. This was a really neat way to get feedback. I told the students to be completely honest. I also told the students that I wanted to be a fantastic year 7 & 8 students and that their feedback would help me towards this. Some of the questions are quite general and are on a range of topics.

How am I doing survey Students responses to survey

Teacher Inquiry-reflections!

Where has the year gone??? This year I have found that I have not made enough time to reflect on my teaching and own personal learning. So much has happened, changed, improved, failed, succeeded etc and I have not reflected on it how I normally would. So my goal for this term is to post on my blog at least once a week to regain my reflective skills. I find that working in a team we do a lot of verbal reflection but I don't make time to write this down or record this. Bring on the challenge!