I just finished listening to a 3+ hour online workshop with Wiley Blevins on this VERY topic! So informative. Your summary is so helpful and I'm able to make deeper connections to my own instruction after this last half-year of being connected to you!
I will be very interested in knowing how you will approach dictation this upcoming year both in whole group and small group instruction. I really want to improve this important skill with my students.
I also am thinking a lot about my small group at station/center time and how that instruction needs to be designed over each week throughout the year in order to effectively differentiate deeper phonics and reading instruction. Now that I've used your different pieces (PAT/word lists/WCT/RCT) I want to be sure I am maximizing this valuable (but short!) small group time each day. Wiley's small group lessons he described were far more in-depth and required twice as much time as I am able to devote.
I always love your thoughtful responses and reflections. You are probably way better at this than I am. I think that most teachers put more time and teaching into small groups than I do. I do not use this time to introduce or teach new things; it is almost always just practice on something we did whole group or some thing we’ve done before. I just wrote about this in one of my more recent blogs and you will come across it. It is the blog about whole group instruction versus small group instruction and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it.
I just finished listening to a 3+ hour online workshop with Wiley Blevins on this VERY topic! So informative. Your summary is so helpful and I'm able to make deeper connections to my own instruction after this last half-year of being connected to you!
I will be very interested in knowing how you will approach dictation this upcoming year both in whole group and small group instruction. I really want to improve this important skill with my students.
I also am thinking a lot about my small group at station/center time and how that instruction needs to be designed over each week throughout the year in order to effectively differentiate deeper phonics and reading instruction. Now that I've used your different pieces (PAT/word lists/WCT/RCT) I want to be sure I am maximizing this valuable (but short!) small group time each day. Wiley's small group lessons he described were far more in-depth and required twice as much time as I am able to devote.
More great learning ahead!
I always love your thoughtful responses and reflections. You are probably way better at this than I am. I think that most teachers put more time and teaching into small groups than I do. I do not use this time to introduce or teach new things; it is almost always just practice on something we did whole group or some thing we’ve done before. I just wrote about this in one of my more recent blogs and you will come across it. It is the blog about whole group instruction versus small group instruction and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it.
Thank you again for this!!! I will start my small group time earlier this year and incorporate how you set up your small group time.
You’re welcome! Thanks for the feedback; good to know it is helpful to you.