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https://tomneedhamteach.wordpress.com/ TWITTER: @Tom_Needham_. 50-60 students. Average gains of 5+yrs reading age in under a calendar year. Student B began October 2017 with Reading Age of 6yrs ‘Graduated’ November 2018 with Reading Age of 15yrs He had 76x30min sessions
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https://tomneedhamteach.wordpress.com/ TWITTER: @Tom_Needham_
Average gains of 5+yrs reading age in under a calendar year.
Student B began October 2017 with Reading Age of 6yrs • ‘Graduated’ November 2018 with Reading Age of 15yrs • He had 76x30min sessions • ~1 year of progress every four hours! • Student A began September 2017 with Reading Age of 8.5yrs • ‘Graduated’ February 2018 with Reading Age of 15yrs • She had 41x30min sessions • ~1 year of progress every three hours!
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Non Fiction • Text Dependent Questions
What are your big generalisable/high-utility Ideas? • Vocabulary • Building Blocks of sentences • The Big 3
Tier 3 Tier 2 Tier 1
In Texts Responding to Texts
3) At the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth seems dominant but… • Appositive • ‘Out Damned spot!’ • nefarious,plight, admonishment, insurrection
750 morphographs that can be combined into 12,000 to 15,000 words
Vocabulary • Building Blocks of Sentences • The Big 3
Wider Essay Paragraph Context Sentence practice Recap Lessons Expanded Quiz Quiz Quiz Homework Quiz Restricted Time
Teaching through Examples and Non-examples 5 Principles from Direct Instruction
The 6 ‘shifts’ in Task Design from Direct Instruction
1) Overt to Covert ‘Rate’
4) Massed to Distributed Distributed over weeks/months/years Acquisition Lessons (minimum 2/3) • ‘Knowledge does not go away’ • Retrieval practice • Deliberate practice • Wider Application
6)Teacher to Student I We You
The Sequencing of Skills from Direct Instruction
1) Components Before Whole • Subject • Verb • Clause • Noun • phrase A hairless rodent, the naked mole rat is one of two species of mammal that displays eusociality, the highest level of animal organisation.
The archetypal Victorian gentleman, Utterson cares deeply about his reputation and attempts to act with the upmost decorum at all times. His face ‘was never lighted by a smile’, a description that exemplifies his serious nature and desire to be respected by his peers.Obsessed with secrecy and the opinions of others, Utterson is ‘austere’ and ‘cold.’, avoiding all forms of frivolity in order to project an image of impeccable propriety.Like other upper class gentlemen, he was expected to display social conformity at all times: Victorian social mores were incredibly restrictive. He was ‘embarrassed in discourse’, disdaining gossip, conversation and small talk. Vocabulary Archetypal, decorum, exemplifies, frivolity, impeccable, propriety, conformity, social mores, restrictive, disdain. 2) Context Knowledge 3) Specific high-utility grammatical constructions
3) Easy then Hard Sentence Practice Simple Compound Complex Participles Appositives Combined Absolutes Easy sounds: /a/ /m/ /s/ More difficult: /t/ /d/ /p/
4) Keep confusing things separate • b vs d • infer vs imply • Absolute phrases vs Participle phrases • 3 part explanations vs Tricolons