Implementing Structured Literacy one step at a time: Step #3 - Reading

Using texts suggested in the Refreshed English Curriculum for Year 7-8 this term has allowed me to experiment with aligning my learning in structured literacy Reading with the curriculum. To be honest my years of Reading PLD has afforded me the luxury of making very few changes to my practice. I have had to make changes in a few areas like vocabulary and text structure, but for the most part not a lot has changed.

Rather than explaining how I teach reading I have decided to showcase how we capitalised on the create aspect of learn - create - share to strengthen my learner's connections to the content in the text and the learning that ran along side it. As you can see create opportunities are easy to include in a structured reading program. They don't need to be 'perfect' but they do need to provide opportunities for our tamariki to take ownership of the learning and make the connections they need to make sense of the wide variety of multimodal texts in a reading program.

All these lessons have been taught as a whole class. Some students have needed further opportunities to unpack the text and all follow up activities are done collaboratively in groups or pairs. At this stage working independently on follow up activities is something we are working towards. I find that collaboration makes new learning seem less scary and helps my learners take risks they would usually shy away from.

A focus on dialogue and the structure and purpose of graphic texts

A focus on rich discussion and forming an opinion by exploring both sides of a provocation

Group discussion and text responses captured on Adobe Podcast

AI generated posters using Adobe Express to showcase important quotes

Google Vid and Adobe Express to capture an illustrated DLO of my learners reading a poem 

You can see examples here in my learner's blogs, which have all been shared with permission.

• Loa
• Valencia
• Maania