Term+1+Reflection

TERM 1 2012- Explicit Teaching of Vocabulary
What have we done so far? (Please feel add another achievements you can think of-
 * Term 1 saw the kick off of our focus on improving reading. The NAPLAN data showed vocabulary was a big area of need with our students. On SDD 1 Michelle and Cassandra showed us a few ideas for explicitly teaching vocabulary.
 * We trialled a new planning proforma to help us plan more explicitly what vocabulary activities or strategies we would engage the students in around a literary text and a factual text.
 * We purchased a resource- Writing Rescue- which has a series of rich literary and factual texts that will be used to develop writing but also lend themselves to immersing the students in rich vocabulary.
 * We have engaged the whole school in the Premiers Reading Challenge to further develop a culture of reading in the school
 * Students years 3 and 5 have been targeted to develop their ability to locate information in texts (partly in preparation for NAPLAN)
 * The reading strategy- //Here Hidden Head// has been taken up by many teachers (all?) as a proactive strategy to use with students to help them understand what they read.
 * Sue showed us two vocabulary presentations that had a number of strategies we could use for developing vocab. One can be found below.

Reading resources
vocabulary resource website