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Maximising Progress for Y6 Pupils in Literacy. February 2009 Emma Sharp & Julia Dixon Primary Strategy Consultants. Aims and Outcomes. Identify the key barriers to pupil progress from level 3 to 4 and 4 to 5 in reading and writing
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Maximising Progress for Y6 Pupils in Literacy February 2009 Emma Sharp & Julia Dixon Primary Strategy Consultants
Aims and Outcomes • Identify the key barriers to pupil progress from level 3 to 4 and 4 to 5 in reading and writing • Explore practical strategies to move children on in their learning • Share the Y6 web based materials
Agenda 9.15 Arrival and coffee 9.30 Welcome and introductions 9.35 Maximising Progress 9.50 Reading 10.30 Coffee 10.45 Writing 11.25 Y6 materials 11.45 Key messages
Maximising Progress • Obstacles to progress in English • Overcoming obstacles to progress
Do you have pupils in your class that fit the following profiles? • Which of the characteristics most closely match those of the children in your class who are potentially ‘slow moving’ or ‘falling behind’?
Characteristics of children making slow progress in English The children: • are often boys • are generally well behaved • display a positive approach to learning • usually persevere with routine activities and tasks with limited challenge • lack self-help strategies and rely on peers for guidance
Children struggling to make progress from Level 2 to Level 4 • were ‘invisible children’, with the girls especially being quiet and undemanding • were often (in the case of boys) bubbly, lively, keen to respond to questions but unlikely to reflect or think before doing so • when stuck they put up their hands and waited to be noticed
Children struggling to make progress from Level 3 to Level 5 • were highly articulate and perceptive in small group discussions • picked up ideas quickly and were confident, motivated and enthusiastic • were overwhelmingly positive about reading • were, however, ‘easy to miss’ • were unwilling to take risks and didn’t like to make mistakes continued…..
didn’t ask for help and found difficulty in identifying their own successes • often worked exclusively in mixed ability groups, rarely working with children who were making similar rates of progress • often perceived themselves as additional support to less able pupils • said they would have liked more opportunities to work in ability groups or independently
Overcoming obstacles to progress:planning, modelling, sharing, guiding • Opportunities to plan and write within a range of contexts across the curriculum • Oral rehearsal throughout the writing process • ‘High value’ curricular targets used and applied across the curriculum • The classroom environment supports teaching and learning • Focused marking and oral feedback • Opportunities to develop higher order reading skills, e.g. inference and deduction • Engage with, and enjoy, texts that provide a high level of interest and challenge
"Reading aloud to children may be the single most important thing a teacher does." • Good range of text • Set of criteria for selection • Give pleasure and bring text alive • Engage children in text they might not otherwise meet • Encourage dialogue • Build up a repertoire of language, patterns, stylistic conventions • Promote reading and build up positive attitudes
Tell Me Book Talk – discussion, questioning and response to texts
Response Hooks The author creates atmosphere by ...... It makes me imagine... The theme of the story is .... The theme of the story is ... The author wants me to think ... The story is complicated by ...... The main features of this book are....
Reading Journals • Provide an opportunity to reflect on reading experiences • Create a dialogue with the teacher • Allow time for private thoughts • Give a specific, structured response on character, setting, story, language, information • Link to shared and guided reading • Mini-journals can centre around one text
Drawing, mapping and annotating • Draw a map of events • Compare maps of different stories – similarities and differences • Can support work on structure • Non-fiction structural organisers - point and evidence grid, cause and effect grid, argument versus counter argument list
Role Play and Drama • Provides immediate routes into the fictional world of a story • Allows active exploration of aspects of the text • Provides opportunity to investigate point of view
Readers Theatre and Forum Theatre • Allows an incident or an event to be seen from different points of view • Text can be marked up into a script by a group and then prepared for performance • Group acts out a scene, another group watch then direct the group to act or speak in different ways • Characters can be questioned in role • Alternative interpretations can be compared • Groups can each prepare a chapter and the a complete performance can be arranged
Writing in Role • Taking the role of a character enables the writer to look at events and other characters from a different viewpoint • Helps promote deeper understanding of the text
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