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Getting ready for 2021: Reading

1/14/2021

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This is a post which so many of you have asked for. I tossed up about actually ever writing this because of how teaching and running a reading programme can be so different. Different teachers run things their own way and it depends on the type of reading approach your school follows. 
It has taken me awhile to fine tune my reading programme, especially guided reading. I love how it is set up currently and really felt a huge success in 2020 with trialling some new options with my kiddies. ​
I have used Daily 5 for four years now and use it as a basis for my programme. The aspects that are involved are read to self, read to someone, word work, work on writing and listen to reading. I find that all five of these are fundamental parts to practice and learn in reading time, with students building key skills while completing these. I also have a few other rotations included of other things like teacher time, work on ipad, word wall, free play, playdough, lego and crafts. These all make up important aspects of my programme. 
I first began with Daily 5 in 2017 - I had done the research, read the book, scoped for resources before implementing it 'the right way'. It was such a success and since then I have implemented a lot of student agency based choices which came from the daily 5 implementation. 
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I wrote a blog post in 2019 on how I set up Daily 5 in my classroom. This has links to resources and a slidedeck I created for PLD and assistance for new teachers looking to get into Daily 5. Find the link to the slides here. 
Read more here
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My reading tumble is more of a choice board now where students can choose what they would like to do in reading time as long as they cross it off on their card. This is to create ownership over their choices and be held accountable for the choices they make in class too. They love being able to choose what they want to do and I love seeing them do it! 
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So teaching guided reading is obviously something that is fine tuned to each teacher so if there is something I share in this that you disagree with - that is totally fine. Remember this is my interpretation of teaching and how I complete guided reading with my students. 
​Some points to note:
  • I group based on reading level or goals e.g. gold level, stage 2 for decodables 
  • I do not to round robin reading
  • I run my high readers (green and above) different to my new readers - who are using decodables and learning to read
  • For my littles, there is a huge focus on sounds, blending and segmenting before actual reading
  • I have explicit follow up activities which match to their learning to further support the reading time with the teacher
I hope this has helped unpack a little on how reading is run in my classroom. Obviously things might be different this year with my newbies but I know I will be doing Daily 5 again in a basic tumble to begin the year. If you have any questions about how I run reading please get in contact info@mrspriestleyict.com or send me a message over facebook or instagram. 
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Christmas inspo 2020

11/28/2020

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It's almost Christmas time! So I have put together a post with my best Christmas ideas and resources for your students and classroom! Click on the links for information or free downloads!
Christmas Equal Sharing
This activity is practice for equal sharing - with a Christmas theme! This is used on Google Slides with draggable object clip art, or on Seesaw with students using emojis!
Great way to practice equal sharing but with that Christmas feel!
Make a copy of the template for your class here or download the slides you are after
Make a copy here
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Elf on the shelf and other prompts
This elf of the shelf prompt from Miss Learning Bee (on Instagram) is a great way to hook students in for the season! Why not have your elf celebrate a quarantine like any other traveller would need to!
This freebie resource has so many ideas - along with this one for you and your classroom to use! 
Make a copy here

Christmas themed advent calendar
I created a Christmas advent calendar for my class, involving different Christmas themed activities that I found on Teachers Pay Teachers, Seesaw or Google (thank you to those that provided them)! Some are reading, maths or crafts. Each day we will take off the number present and reveal the task for the day!
Find the link to two different versions of the advent calendar. 
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Advent calendar pdf link
Advent calendar google doc link

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Seesaw Christmas activities
These Christmas themed problem solving mats are perfect for activities on Seesaw. Students can solve problems using different strategies to show their learning and figuring out.
Lots of different templates to try for differentiation of student levels.
Get access to the templates here!

Christmas Tree Kit
This Christmas tree kit is perfect for students to use in class time or at home as a 'get through the time' activity. I have given this to my class as a present for the end of the year which was super cute!
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This prompt comes with kit instructions and writing prompts to keep students busy!

Christmas Tree Kit

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Christmas Tree kit

This kit is perfect for exploring Christmas trees and how to make them.


This pack includes:

-title kit page

-Christmas acrostic poem template

-Christmas tree writing template

-Christmas tree 'how to make' writing template


Print these out and staple them into a booklet with the title page. This allows for students to work on each page as they want to or once focusing in class. I have used this to send home in the past for students to use as a prompt at home (end of the year present)

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Christmas Themed Sensory Jars
These sensory jars are a great addition to your calm down space. Use any Christmas themed crafts or objects you might have to create different aspects for students to use to sooth, calm or respond when they need to. 
Watch my video below to see how my daughter and I made these three!

Check out my other Christmas themed freebies on my website now!

Christmas Playdough Mats

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Christmas Playdough Mats

These Christmas playdough mats are a great way for students to show their creativity with a Christmas themed prompt. Use these for free play or as an activity in your class time. This includes:

  • gingerbread tray
  • christmas trees
  • lolly bags
  • gingerbread cookie
  • christmas present
  • christmas ornament
  • candy cane


This has 11 pages in the resource. Use with plastic sleeves or laminate to ensure durability.

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Christmas Fine Motor Prompts

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Christmas Fine Motor Prompts

These Christmas fine motor prompts are a great idea for provocations around Christmas time. These are themed around three ideas:

  • Christmas trees
  • Cookie trays
  • Stockings


This resource has 40 pages in it for students to use in two different layouts.

The first is with white dots for students to place the correct objects on each dot. This could be with their fingers, tweezers, scoopers or anything else students might have in the classroom. This practices fine motor skills, pincer grip and more.

The second is for students to count out the right number of objects onto the mats.


Print off to ensure durability or use plastic sleeves.

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Christmas themed missing numbers

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Christmas themed missing numbers


This resources is great for reinforcing number knowledge and number sequence with numbers to 100.

Students can choose the activity they are working on or teachers can print it out, students look for the number missing with the cartoon image on it and write the number in the box! So simple yet fun to complete!


There are different sheets with different numbers missing from 20 to 100. Just choose the one you are looking for!

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Decodable reading

10/21/2020

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Decodable reading is all the rave at the moment. The benefits of being able to decode while reading, using texts that can be decoded easily. There are lots of brands of decodable texts: little learners love literacy, letters and sounds, whizz kids. It depends on your phonics or literacy programme, costs and interests to which brand of books you could use. Each of these are amazing and help students read using a decoding approach with target sounds. 

This is a teaching sequence outline anchor chart which I developed to help share how it can be taught or covered in a lesson. This is no way a 'be all or end all' approach; but covers the main points when teaching. 
1. Prior to reading - the first thing is making sure you have selected the appropriate text based on the sound or grapheme you are focusing on. 
2. Segmenting and blending - this is focusing on the words in the text. Practicing segmenting them out and blending them together. This is practiced continuously to build confidence and skill with the sound. 
3. Tricky words - reading the tricky words as 'fast words'. Lots of reading over them and practicing these so when they are recognised in the text students can say them quickly. 
4. After reading - just like every other guided reading session; talk about the text and have students respond to what was covered. 
Make a copy of this anchor chart here! 
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New resource - word work hot spot

5/3/2020

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I love word work and small snippet activities that get students to practice key skills from your classroom. Being online at the moment, it can be hard finding fun activities that students can practice during your online sessions. These word work hot spots are a great quick way to practice key skills! There are eight in this slide deck that can be used online in whole group discussions, or assigned to Seesaw or Google classroom to complete. 
This is available to purchase on my website or TPT store. Great learning opportunities for young learners. 

Daily word work hot spot

NZ$2.50

Daily word work hot spot

These slides are a great quick snippet activity that can be used as warm ups in your online sessions, assigned as Seesaw activities or used in 1:1 sessions. These are able to be edited once you have made a copy of the template. You will then be able to change the words for your own class needs once the template is saved in your drive.


This includes:

-word family activity

-how many words

-first sound

-make sense

-blends

-alphabetical order

-end sounds

-write a sentence


This will be downloaded as a pdf which will have the link to the google slide resource.

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Want to try it out?
​Grab my freebie here! 
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Sunday Spotlight

2/15/2020

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This weeks sunday spotlight I am sharing this great reading exit slip tracker that you can use with your older kids. Perfect for keeping track of how long they have read for, a part they enjoyed and creating ownership of their learning. This exit slip could be used alongside read to self or read to someone from Daily 5. 
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This is a downloadable pdf with space for book title, author, start and end page, reading comment and a time keeper section. You could have a place where students store these or hand them in as evidence. 

This could also be part of a homework programme too to use as a template. 

Free to download and use, just click on the pdf file link!
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Reading and play

2/9/2020

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As I am teaching in a junior classroom again this year, I have been looking into incorporating play into my classroom routine. Not just free play where they go for it. Structured play with provocations and prompts to guide the conversation and/or play. 

I have seen a few ideas floating around facebook and instagram with themed play in a classroom. 
As I have little learners coming to visit every fortnight on a Tuesday, I'm going to use that literacy block to be themed around a picture book. The first one is around the book "Piranhas don't eat bananas". I will have a range of themed activities out along with a task card,  for students to use to play, build and then shared their learning. An example is one in the picture below - a piranha peg!
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I can't wait to get this underway this week and will use it to start and see the success of this programme. There are so many opportunities and benefits for structured play in the classroom and linking it to picture books is a fantastic start! I can't wait! 
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Daily 5 in the classroom

1/22/2019

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I have had lots of interest in my Daily 5 products over the last few days so thought I would give a quick blog post on my experience with Daily 5. 
It has been a huge part of my literacy programme for the last two years. This year will be my third year using it, this time with Year 3's. Previously I have done in with Year 1s and then Year 1/2 composite. I first came across Daily 5 online and purchased this book 'The Daily 5'. It unpacks it very clearly and highlights how you should implement it in your classroom. If you're looking to get it going in your classroom then start with this. 
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I have used Daily 5 in a very unique way, a way that builds student agency and choice in class. For the first term I always use Daily 5 as part of a normal rotation where I tell the students where they are going and what activity to do. This is while they are learning the Daily 5 fundamentals and we are unpacking it together. 

I first break down what each Daily 5 part will look like for both the student and the teacher. This makes it clear to everyone who is doing what, and my expectations throughout literacy time. 

After one-two terms I then move onto a more fluid way of using Daily 5. I developed a checklist for each student to use that they cross off while they go during the week. This is for both of us to keep track of their choices and to make sure they aren't just doing the 'fun' activities all the time. This checklist was the best thing I have ever implemented in my class and once my students were trained the programme ran itself. 

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My Daily 5 Resources I have created:

Daily 5 Pack: This comes with everything you need to set up Daily 5 in your classroom.
-bunting for each section
-daily 5 sign for each section
-self assessment checklists for each section (filled in one with ideas and empty for your own ideas)
-work on writing templates and examples to be used in work on writing section
-work on writing mini signs (that go with each template and example)

Daily 5 Anchor Charts: These anchor charts are to be used with the Daily 5 programme. Perfect for outlining what the teacher and students need to be doing when using Daily 5 for each section.

Daily 5 Checklist: 
This checklist is perfect for using in your Daily 5 programme! I use this in my teaching programme and my students love having student agency over their choices! Each student gets their own checklist with the blank square for a picture of them so they know which one belongs to them. Each day in reading they can cross of their choices so you can monitor reading choices.

Daily 5 Checklist (make your own): This checklist is a 'make your own' version of my other Daily 5 Checklist. Here you are able to create your own Daily 5 checklist with your own choice of Daily 5 element icons already made on the template. Not all classes teach the same thing, so you can drag into the checklist what aspects of Daily 5 you will use.

Daily 5 Bundle: This is a combination of all of these resources above but at a cheaper price!!!!



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Along with all of that, there are also some Daily 5 slides that I made for a PLD session I ran with some teachers at my school. This summarised everything that I learnt and how others could learn from something I was using in my class. You can find the links to the slide presentation here. 

If you have any questions please email me info@mrspriestleyict.com! If you use any of my resources please tag me in your posts or share your feedback with me! 
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room 11 top 10 books

12/31/2018

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Room 11 loves using QR codes. QR codes are easy to use and make. They are linked to different websites or youtube clips, that children can scan with a QR code reader and be taken to that website. 
QR codes are used with listening to reading in Room 11! They love hearing online stories so helped me to create some for our top 10 books we love to hear. These are printed out for students to use in the class and access easily. 

Our top 10 books include:

-The Hungry Caterpillar
-The Wonkey Donkey
-The Tiny Seed
-The Rainbow Fish
-We're going on a bear hunt
-The Gruffalo
-Room on the broom
-Harry the dirty dog
-Hey, thats my monster!
-Green eggs and ham
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If you would like to download these and use them in your classroom please click here, for access to the pdf >> Room 11 Top 10 books!
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Book boats

12/31/2018

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So I came across this cool post on the NZ Teachers Facebook page, and immediately had to make these things called 'Book boats'. I went out and brought the containers, had huge difficulty cutting the lid in half with a saw and decorated them on my teacher only days. 
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School has only been back a few days. We brought them out on Monday for 'read to self' time in reading and the children were in love. They all wanted a turn and couldn't wait to read in it. As we only made 5, we had to leave them only for 'read to self' time when they could then choose to read in them on the deck. 
You can see in the picture, the children are so engaged with their reading. So cute and comfortable! The best thing I've made for my classroom this year! 
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