End of Term 2 reflection

After a busy term I was a little worried that my inquiry was being neglected. However, I realised that I had tried some things in my classroom that were working but could be used more wisely.

I had made my WALTS specific to strategies to find unknown words. There had been a lot of discussion in small group sessions that had focused on the context of the story and breaking down specific sentences to understand new words. We looked at the make up of the words and finding familiarities with known words. These words that we had discovered in small group sessions were put up on the board for the week under a picture of that group picture.

I would like to give groups more opportunities to use these words that they are discovering. In Term 3 I would like to integrate my curriculum areas so that reading and writing are planned together. This way I am hoping that the students will be able to use these words from their reading, in their writing since they are planned around the same or similar context.

After small group discussions or as a warm up to the class I would like to introduce some word games to get the students thinking about ways to use words. For example, the game Word Sneak, like seen on The Tonight Show.