Structured Literacy - COP Session 1 Phonogical Awareness and Alphabetic Principle

 Interestingly the module paperwork says year 0-3. I am in a Year 5/6 class.

Review from the previous 3 days. Diagnostic findings direct the teaching of necessary knowledge; Tiered Instruction ensures that all students receive the learning they need. We need to consider the components and delivery of the literacy block; Classroom environment/setup to best support teaching and learning.

Aspects of previous days was covered around assessment and how it directs teaching and learning.FLSA needed to be done for students at risk - Tier 3 students who specifically need phonemic awareness, their knowledge gaps and to determine where to start teaching.

The Stages of Ability - multisensory - finger spell, clapping, segmentation of sound; initial, final and medial, knowledge, automatic and transference - corrct sound to symbol knowledge. We need to be responsive to students' needs.

Monitoring required at least every 10 weeks with PA.

Spelling assessments could the The Code or iDeaL We used iDeal. iDeal gives us the group reports.

We need to teach at curriculum level. Frontload at lower stage. Provide different words/sentences.and with prompts and visual aids.

Key Considerations for Great Pracice

• print the lesson plan and follow
• teach all 4 lessons
• 20 min max at a perky pace
• Decode, Encode, Decode every time
• Dictation
• Video yourself to improve your own implementation

This was followed up by the statement of : How we teach matters and reiteration of knowing the teaching sequence, practise yourself with a lesson, use high leverage teaching practises and active participation and opportunities to respond. We only have to be one concept ahead of students to pre-learn the next the week before.

Lastly was dictation tips to support students and teaching of irregular words and the de-impletation of essential words.

I found this to be a full on session and at times confusing as things seemed to change with having different people taking the PD.  Maybe it was my own cognitive overload.  Having this time to reread and type into here is helping me to remember and give me ideas for moving forward as I plan T3.