Prompt Four
I have not yet been on my placement for this trimester, however from my previous experience i had a very positive literary experience. Children were given a wide range of opportunities to develop their reading and writing skills. Everyday students would engage with their reading buddies during literacy rotations on one activity, the next day this would be repeated, however the groups would rotate to a different activity. The activities included guided reading with the teacher, reading to other group members, sentence structure, literacy games and a reading level group. These reading groups flowed well and students were grouped according to similar abilities. Each week some alterations were made to ensure students were never doing the same thing over again.
a writing activity that the students engaged with that i taught was a creative writing activity where they had a choice to choose there own character, setting and object. The first lesson that this was taught flowed very nicely until some students had difficulty thinking about what to write with the components that they had to include. This caused some chaos within the classroom. However, this was a learning experience for me as i went home to think about how i could improve the lesson. This was where i did an example story on the board to show students their expectations and to give them some ideas of how to write the creative piece. Students then effectively completed there writing piece with confidence.
