Add this to the things I’ll miss as my kids ‘grow up’... just appreciating the specific use of visual language here to deter a sister. 🤣
Visual language is often overlooked in the big literacy picture - and yet in… https://t.co/ih0PiU7FXy
Home sick today, but can’t turn the brain off. 🤧
This is the focus of so much of my PLD work - the deliberate teaching of INDEPENDENCE through the writer’s process.
Every learner (from day 1, age 5) is infinitely… https://t.co/iifCF8NEJv
The answer to ‘Where do I start?’ - Step 1 Flashcards have activities that get progressively harder for each of the phonological awareness skills. It’s a perfect diagnostic tool - assessment and learning all wrapped… https://t.co/AA1sPRbU7f
Step 3 Tools are on the website for download. This kit has a pack of resources for every learning item on Genius Card 3. Here’s just one - the ‘c or k’ pack. Depending on your learners,… https://t.co/8Mw8sH9WC9
How was week 1 team?
This was a highlight for me - from a senior leader who recently started working with me for the first time.
He’s summed me up pretty well! #illtakeit… https://t.co/QJoi4QCbJD
Game-changer alert! Leading learners to plan for writing is a critical step.. and I’ve always HATED it. Sooo many of the things we do to ‘help’ result in poorer writing. It’s been… https://t.co/iFSNkyI5pN
Tools for set 3!! This has been in my head (on the list) for SUCH a long time. I’ve done it! A complete 17 page set aligned with Genius Card 3.
It seems good things happen when I’m home… https://t.co/MYpCzwKJIN
Generating ideas take 2... Three minutes to jot down as many ideas as you can... so much more flow today! Each one of these notes is a potential personal narrative to be chosen when the… https://t.co/wuu5XYTnsO
Page 1 of the flash draft Miss 6 produced about a first time.
She ‘rehearsed’ (planned) orally across her fingers: finger 1 - set the scene, fingers 2, 3, 4 - what happened, what happened,… https://t.co/hPZdV2CW37
The first fundamental belief shared by exceptional teachers of writing is that we need not EVER give learners ‘topics’. That’s a short term fix - and short term is not teaching. Teaching… https://t.co/7Khmqlqwj3
Scary, risky, (courageous?) things have to happen when you’re in business. It’s been a constant this year - making decisions to invest in good tools, and support. Spending money with no… https://t.co/iG7xab3zHO
Giveaway for the regulars today... if you’re already a lover of the Genius Cards, and you’d like to check out the flash cards that support (particularly good with Card 2) - this is your… https://t.co/B400n6yFSR
Genius Cards - If your school hasn’t checked them out yet and you’d like to, shout now... I’ve got some sample packs to give away. Share the love if you have seen/used them ... pass this… https://t.co/LcK1Dfjm2N
Feel grateful for the joy of my job.. workshops about the code have taken me to Ohinewai, Huntly, Paeroa, Whakatane, Tauranga, Hamilton, and Te Aroha this term. Always a good chunk of… https://t.co/Kpfp0y0lmz
Feel grateful for the joy of my job.. workshops about the code have taken me to Ohinewai, Huntly, Paeroa, Whakatane, Tauranga, Hamilton, and Te Aroha this term. Always a good chunk of… https://t.co/K1zKlbOleK