Reading Focus:

Term 3 Week 2: Weekly Literacy Planner Readers Workshop Monday Tuesday

Read Aloud: Ducks on a Winter Night by Georgia Heard. Our mental images are influenced by others activity from RWM.

Wednesday
Read Aloud: The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer. Adapting mental images. Read half book without showing kids pics. Sketch my changing mental images.

Thursday
Read Aloud: The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer. Adapting mental images continued. Read first half of book again with pics. Then second half without showing pics. Kids draw their images. Jonah, Jack H, Matilda, Eve, Grace Title: Book Club book Level: 26, 27, 28 Follow Up: Clarifying words and questions for understanding. Amy M, Zoe, Hugo, Amelia Focus: Shopping for Books sheet. Talk about sheet. Talk about ideas for sheet. Write ideas. Laminate. Ella, Ryan, Riley, Hayley

Friday
Read Aloud: Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman. Show pictures, get kids to turn and talk about their mental images and what the storyline might be. They will also infer.

Read Aloud & Mini Lesson

Read Aloud: Four poems from Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky by Georgia Heard. Artistic response activity from RWM & planner.

Guided Reading

Livvy, Hunter, Bella R, Bella G Title: Level: Blue Follow Up: Link some post-read questions to mental images.

Ryan, Billy, Aimee C, Zoe, Amelia Title: Level: Black Follow Up: Link some post-read questions to mental images. Marquis, Miki, Matilda, Hayley, Jordynne Focus: Shopping for Books sheet. Talk about sheet. Talk about ideas for sheet. Write ideas. Laminate. Hunter, Amy M, Matilda, Hugo

Hugo, Hayley, Jordynne Title: Level: Double Black Follow Up: Link some post-read questions to mental images. Billy, Jack H, Eve, Ella, Aimee C Focus: Shopping for Books sheet. Talk about sheet. Talk about ideas for sheet. Write ideas. Laminate. Jonah, Livvy, Bella R, Zoe

Ella, Miki, Marquis, Amy M, Riley Title: Book Club book Level: 30+ Follow Up: Clarifying words and questions for understanding. Livvy, Hunter, Bella R, Bella G Title: Level: Blue Follow Up: Link some post-read questions to mental images. Grace, Billy, Eve, Aimee C

Scheduled Conference Groups

Ryan, Jonah, Grace, Riley Focus: Shopping for Books sheet. Talk about sheet. Talk about ideas for sheet. Write ideas. Laminate. Jack H, Miki, Marquis, Jordynne, Amelia

ICT

Modelled Writing Focus: Procedures Silent Writing Focus: Publishing a poem and starting procedures.

Writers Workshop Wednesday

Read/look at one of the procedures in PM Writing Big Book. Talk about structure of a procedure. Encourage the writing and publishing of poems in free-choice writing time. Focussed Teaching Group Marquis, Aimee C, Amy, Amelia. Focus: Interactive Writing for letter formation.

Monday
Editing workshop: Model with kids help how to edit the piece of writing. Kids then practise on their own copy. Then go on with handwriting practise in books and on paper.

Tuesday
T&T about what a procedure is and why we have them. Read/look at one of the procedures in PM Writing Big Book. Encourage the writing and publishing of poems in free-choice writing time. Focussed Teaching Group Ryan, Hunter, Bella R, Jack M Focus: Interactive Writing for letter formation.

Thursday
Model writing a basic procedure i.e. making toast. Emphasise how you can write a procedure for anything, but would you want to/need to? Encourage the writing and publishing of poems in free-choice writing time. Focussed Teaching Group Ryan, Hunter, Bella R, Jack M Focus: Interactive Writing for letter formation.

Friday
Model writing a basic procedure i.e. making toast. Emphasise how you can write a procedure for anything, but would you want to/need to? Encourage the writing and publishing of poems in free-choice writing time. Focussed Teaching Group Marquis, Aimee C, Amy, Amelia. Focus: Interactive Writing for letter formation.

Focussed Teaching Group Billy, Livvy, Hayley, Jack M Focus: Editing for full stops.

Sound Lesson
Common initial blends dr, tr, cr, br

Word Investigations (Spelling) Visual Lesson

wh Where The Wild Things Are w & wh What If? Joanna Walsh When Grandma Came Jill Walsh Its Quacking Time Martian Waddell qu/kw Queenie and the Bantam Bob Graham qu/kw

Meaning Lesson
Build word families, eg run, ran, running.

Reading Focus: Visualising/Mental Images

Term 3 Week 3: Weekly Literacy Planner Readers Workshop Wednesday

Read Aloud: ? Creating mental images from nonfiction. Making comparisons that can be visualised. STW 135. Hugo, Hayley, Jordynne Title: Level: Double Black Follow Up: Link
some post-read questions to mental images.

Monday
Read Aloud & Mini Lesson Read Aloud:
Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman. Show pictures, get kids to turn and talk about their mental images and what the storyline might be. They will also infer.

Tuesday
Read Aloud:
Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman. Show pictures, get kids to turn and talk about their mental images and what the storyline might be. They will also infer.

Thursday
Read Aloud: ? Creating mental images from nonfiction. Making comparisons that can be visualised.

Friday
Read Aloud: ? Creating mental images from nonfiction. Making comparisons that can be visualised.

Guided Reading

Livvy, Hunter, Bella R, Bella G Title: Level: Blue Follow Up: Link
some post-read questions to mental images.

Ryan, Billy, Aimee C, Zoe, Amelia Title: Level: Black Follow Up: Link
some post-read questions to mental images.

Jonah, Jack H, Matilda, Eve, Grace Title: Level: 26, 27, 28 Follow Up:
Clarifying words and questions for understanding.

Ella, Miki, Marquis, Amy M, Riley Title: The Crossover Level: 30+ Follow Up:
Clarifying words and questions for understanding.

Scheduled Conference Groups

Ryan, Jonah, Grace, Riley Focus: Shopping for

Books sheet. Talk about sheet. Talk about ideas for sheet. Write ideas. Laminate.

Marquis, Miki, Matilda, Hayley, Jordynne Focus: Shopping for

Books sheet. Talk about sheet. Talk about ideas for sheet. Write ideas. Laminate.

Billy, Jack H, Eve, Ella, Aimee C Focus: Talking about the mental images from own books and ways of recording information. Livvy, Bella R, Zoe, Matilda, Bella G

Amy M, Zoe, Hugo, Amelia Focus: Talking about the mental images from own books and ways of recording information. Ella, Ryan, Riley, Hayley

Livvy, Hunter, Bella R, Bella G Title: Level: Blue Follow Up: Link
some post-read questions to mental images.

ICT

Jack H, Miki, Marquis, Jordynne, Amelia

Hunter, Amy M, Jonah, Hugo

Grace, Billy, Eve, Aimee C

Modelled Writing Focus: Procedures Silent Writing Focus: Procedures

Writers Workshop Wednesday

Model writing a procedure. Focus on structure i.e. Goal, Materials, Steps etc. Use recipes books, instruction manuals etc for demonstration and discussion. Possibly link to olden days theme for the term.

Monday
Editing workshop: Model with kids help how to edit the piece of writing Cassowary Hunt. Kids then practise on their own copy. Then go on with handwriting practise in books and on paper. Focussed Teaching Group Billy, Livvy, Hayley, Jack M Focus: Editing for full stops.

Tuesday
Model writing a procedure. Focus on structure i.e. Goal, Materials, Steps etc. Use recipes books, instruction manuals etc for demonstration and discussion. Possibly link to olden days theme for the term.

Thursday
Model writing a procedure. Focus on structure i.e. Goal, Materials, Steps etc. Use recipes books, instruction manuals etc for demonstration and discussion. Possibly link to olden days theme for the term.

Friday
Model writing a procedure. Focus on structure i.e. Goal, Materials, Steps etc. Use recipes books, instruction manuals etc for demonstration and discussion. Possibly link to olden days theme for the term.

Focussed Teaching Group Ryan, Hunter, Bella R, Jack M Focus: Interactive Writing for letter formation.

Focussed Teaching Group Marquis, Aimee C, Amy, Amelia. Focus: Interactive Writing for letter formation.

Focussed Teaching Group Ryan, Hunter, Bella R, Jack M Focus: Interactive Writing for letter formation.

Focussed Teaching Group Marquis, Aimee C, Amy, Amelia. Focus: Interactive Writing for letter formation.

Sound Lesson
Common initial blends str, spr, shr. Find a book that has some of these common blend words. Kids should listen for the blend. In small groups kids can list all the other words they know with these blends at the start. Can also use books.

Word Investigations (Spelling) Visual Lesson

ph visual pattern. Find a big book that has words with this visual pattern. Kids should look for the pattern and make a list of words where this visual pattern occurs. Get them to talk about where it occurs in words i.e. start, middle, end.

Meaning Lesson
Words with common meaning, eg two, twice, twice, twins, twenty. Brainstorm some words like this. In small groups kids can make up their own.