Inquiry - Building Vocabulary

For the rest of the year, I have decided that my inquiry is going to be based on building vocabulary for students in both reading and writing. Through a series of different interactive games, I hope that I will be able to build students' vocabulary and their connections to prior knowledge. I was lucky enough to come back in time for a team session on this topic with Dr Jannie Van Hees. She gave us ideas on creating oral paragraphs, wordplosions, the importance of quick sight word recall. My postgraduate research had been based on this topic, however I am keen to continue this area of research. This week, we began with lots of reading of picture books and sight word bingo. Over the next few weeks, I will be posting the various activities we are doing in class to extend the variety of vocab and important basic sight word vocab in the class. As always, love to hear of any cool ideas you may also have!

I'm back!

I am extremely excited to announce that I am back teaching at Point England School with Mrs.Carruthers in Year 3. After 19 months backpacking Europe I feel ready to get stuck back into teaching and learning. I have an exciting inquiry for the rest of the year which I will update you with at the end of the week!

Thank you Point England School for letting me join the team again!