Seuga's Professional Blog

What? (The Concrete Experience) This Week s Blog I am reflecting on what I learnt about reading groups identified from their reading age level, interests and age. There were a number of ideas that go with text and critical thinking. I also learnt that there is a vast amount of resources available for implementing into Reading Programmes. We also heard that it is important to have a teacher to help readers who need extra help rather than having reading apps available. Summarizing a text through script and what students actually thought when reading over text. These are some of the gems I will take back with me to school. So What? (The Significance) Why is all this important for my learners? If I look back to the beginning of this Course and the results from my students it was an eye opener so if we continue to do the same things over and over how do we expect any change? Through Manaaiakalani Reading Practice Intensive course it enables me to learn the tools that can be implemented in ...

Today's theme for this week was Know your learners as Readers. At the start as always it was great to see our enthusiastic presenters doing their mahi in their positive and experienced way. Being able to revisit our homework through our readers profile survey was a good start and quite doable until we were taught what their reading comprehension assessment results could possibly mean. That was quite a hurdle to jump over as there was quite a bit of English jargon that I needed to get my head around and somewhat out of my learning space. Thus we perservered and managed to upload names onto the teacher workbook with the 10+ columns of evidence required for each student. Thankfully for some reason all my students were not showing on the individual report where I discovered Local Inferencing, Interpret and Integrate were my PAT Reading next steps. What did I learn that increased my understanding of the kaupapa and pedagogy of the Manaiakalani Reading Programme ? There is a lot of te...

First and foremost students were able to fill out the survey about themselves ✔ 14 completed survey 25/2 10 completed today 4/3 Email 24/24 First Name 24/24 Last Name 24/24 Otaki College 15/24 Year Level 24/24 Then after receiving feedback from the survey here is a short summary. PART ONE: HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT READING? Q1 4/24 likes reading at school Q2 3/24 ss like reading books digi or non digital Q3 2/24 ss like reading other digital texts in own time Q4 5/24 students are enjoying a book for enjoyment Q5 7/24 students thought reading texts in their own time helped them Q6 6/24 ss have never borrowed a book from a library Q7 7/24 ss had no texts they liked to read in their own time Q8 6/24 could not list 1 favourite book Q9a 6/24 students have never had a teacher suggest further reading Q9b 6/24 students did not do further reading Q9c 12/24 could not give an example Q10 16/24 had no for their response PART TWO: HOW...