Moving into next term I will be teaching
reading again, and some of the readers will be emergent / magenta readers,
which I have never taught before!
I love the challenge of this and so decided
to pull apart the SPS reading progressions and pebble-ise them so I have a
clearer understanding of what I need the learners to be able to do. I don’t
want to make things “tick-boxy” but I do need to know where to start, and how
to identify a child’s next step.
I just looked at magenta, red and yellow as
I don’t think in the next term I’ll get my readers beyond this level.
Here are my pebbles!
To help with my writing inquiry I also pebble-ised the writing progressions. Initially I grouped them into levels but was then prompted to think about the progressions in a less linear way so the pebbles below are grouped by focus areas.
This work on pebbling the progressions has made the progressions more accessible and real for me and I now have a go to document that I understand to help me.
To help with communicating learning, and to hopefully motivate the children, each individual pebble could be used as a "badge" of achievement - either on Linc-Ed or as "tokens" the children could collect - this idea was inspired by Claire.
What a great process to go through to get your head around new content. I would be interested to know how you use the pebbles... Does each child have a copy of the set? Are they re-written in simple form/visual (especially as they are emergent)?
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