WHAT?
My next
step is to celebrate the work of those children who are at a lower level but
have some “gold”, this means that they have worked hard and have used the
success criteria at their level. I did this in the following set of lessons
when the children were beginning to publish their work in Book creator.
During
the weekend, I was going through my planning and the chidren’s posts in Seesaw,
one of the children I know that doesn’t always follow the directions had worked
particually hard on getting his ideas into Book creator. His work lacked full
stops and sentences that made sense. He had a clear idea of what he was trying
to teach his readers and the photographs worked well with the text. He had a
great eye for layout and there was a good flow from page to page. I asked the
child if I could use his work as an example for the class to share what he had
done.
Being on
Book creator, which is a App on the iPads I was able to screencast his work so
that the class could see what he had done so far. I asked the children what
they noticed and what they thought worked well in his All about book. The
children were full of positivies, his pictures matched the text and he had used
a contents page and that his pages worked from the contents page. Some of my
more scholastic children picked up that he had used little if any punctuation.
When I read his work aloud the rest of the class worked out what was missing. I
told that the class the power of reading your work to someone else and then
getting them to read it back to you, will show you what you need to revise and
fix up.
Part of
this lesson was learning the art of elaboration, where the author adds to their
work to make it more meaningful. I used a sentence like from the lesson plan. I
asked one of the girls if she was happy for the class to help her revise and
make her writing better. She had written – “You can dribble a ball.” I
purposefully asked her what that meant, she said that was what you do when play
hockey. I asked the class if we could elaborate this idea. We worked and
created a sentence that explained what dribbling a hockey ball actually looks
like.
Once the
class was writing and working well, I made time for the boy whose work I had
used to demonstrate and help him revise his work. I also explained that he had
some great ideas but they needed tweaking. Once we were working I asked
questions on what didn’t make sense and he explained more and I praised his
elaboration. from this we worked together on his learning goal.
SO WHAT?
By using some of the children’s
work, it made it more relatible for the other learners, it gave the child who
sometimes struggles a bit of a boost to his ego and was more responsive to the
needs of my learners. I was able to put some pressure on my more able children
who aren’t producing work that they are capable of, or are not extending
themselves as much as they could.
What I have also noticed when I
am reading through their work on book creator there are similar errors such as
setting out, use of the space bar and punctuation. I also feel that the
children are ready for something new and that we are ready to move on. Just a
few more to get theirs finished.
NOW WHAT?
I need to
record my findings into an assessment type of sheet to see if there are any
trends and needs across the class. I have realised that I have such a spread of
where the children are at that, there are a couple of children who haven’t even
got their work onto book creator and I need to work with them to give them a
hurry along.
After
watching a video about the learning ecosystem I need to encourage the children
to share their learning with their family and whanau throughout the whole writing
process not just at the end when it is finished.
“Happiness depends on
your mindset and attitude.”
― Roy
T. Bennett
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