We love our WRITING DAYS. Every second lesson in LLI is a Writing lesson. We write about the text we have read.
When we write we talk about our writing. We use our 5 Star Writing strategies.
We THINK, SAY and WRITE.
We begin each sentences with a capital letter.
We leave a finger space between words.
We use our SOUNDING OUT strategies to spell words.
We use full stops at the end of each sentence.
We can THRASS out our words using our THRASS CHART.
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Identifying the different PHONEMES and GRAPHAMES on our THRASS charts.
We have been exploring the PHONEMES and GRAPHEMES on the THRASS chart to help us read and spell.
READING IS THINKING
The purpose of reading is understanding. Constructing meaning is the goal of comprehension. We want students to MONITOR & ENHANCE their UNDERSTANDING, actively USE KNOWLEDGE and develop INSIGHT!
Our comprehension strategies include :
Learning the LONG and SHORT VOWEL sounds can help us to try different sounds when working out words.
Using the THRASS chart as a tool to help us identify different PHONEMES and GRAPHEMES for reading and spelling
We can use our counters to identify the INITIAL, MIDDLE and FINAL sounds in words. We love this game!!
I can make a CVC word. Can you work out what word I’ve spelt?
Onsets and Rimes
Today we found common patterns in words. If we can read and spell the word ‘at’ then we can read and spell the words ‘cat’, ‘mat’, ‘hat’ and ‘sat’.
Welcome to Dani’s LLI Blog. This semester I have been working with some of our Year One students and what a busy year it has been so far.
During Term One the LLI sessions concentrated on developing and improving students’ phonological awareness. Students were involved in completing tasks such as identifying letter names and their related sounds, counting syllables, detecting and producing rhymes, blending and segmenting CVC words, identifying onsets and final sounds and segmenting blends.
In Term Two the emphasis shifted to applying this phonological knowledge to support students in reading levelled texts independently. Explicit teaching of a variety of decoding and comprehension strategies were a major focus within each lesson. Explicit teaching of fundamental writing strategies was also included to assist students to record simple, well-structured and grammatically correct sentences about the texts studied.
It has been an amazing term and the students have worked really hard to improve their reading.
Congratulations to all the LLI students you should be very proud of your efforts!
Some QUOTES to consider …
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. —Tomie dePaola
Dani
