Alice Clarke

Presenting here in @FCPSMaryland today on retrieval practice. Here is a 🧵on some of the insights I will be sharing. Very quickly we begin to forget new learning we are exposed to. When spaced out retrieval practice helps to slow the rate.

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Content knowledge, pushing vocab use and explicit writing instruction is helping these struggling readers and writers!

@BenisonMrs Thank you!

@AClarke28 @AClarke28 I hope this answers your question

Where are my fellow word nerds?

Been a minute but captured some before and after writing samples… These students are in grade 2 and started out with extremely low reading and writing abilities, look at them now!

@BenisonMrs I look at what difficulties students have in both reading and writing and then work on those blending/segmenting skills. E.g. if they’re missing an internal consonant sound like a in a CCVCC word, I’ll focus the instruction on that…. But also following the progression of skills!

If you are using a PA program that uses 5-10 minutes daily in activities other than blending and segmenting know that there is no evidence that PA activities outside of segmenting and blending have a direct correlation with improved reading outcomes and responses like: "but teachers really like it... and the kids enjoy it so much..." indicate that reading instructional decisions are not being made based on what is supported by evidence or on what works best for kids' reading development. Also, given how critical instructional time is for novice readers, the allocation of 10 minutes daily is probably way too much time for doing daily PA activities.

@MissDavis143 Thanks Anne! 😊

@AClarke28 Brilliant!

Some data worth smiling over! 8 grade 2 sts, 17 weeks of learning… started at kindy / grade 1 level. Blue: above, green: at, yellow: just below, orange: low, red: concern against a grade 2 level. Bring on the next group of sts and I will remember to plot before / after!😊😴

@KimCootes Thank you very much Kim, they had a mindset of unconquerable heights!!

@pernilleripp Herve Tullet ‘press here’ to create his ‘field of flowers’ in his art book. As a grp or individual page. Each student has one paint colour. follow instructions such as paint a dot, paint a circle. move around to the next piece of paper w new instruction. google.ca/amp/s/missamys…

The full process, planning, drafting, revising, publishing! The kids are SO proud of what they have created! ☺️

@SofiaRB_88 😂 allllll the feeeeeels!!

New group of students and we’re loving making comics based on Mo Willems’ book “don’t let the pigeon stay up late!’ we mapped the emotions of the pigeon & created our own pigeon story. Stay tuned, students will be making their own comic with their own characters and story map!

@SofiaRB_88 🤫

@SofiaRB_88 Wouldn’t expect anything less... but stoked you got away with it! 👏

@SofiaRB_88 Mate, what a shocker!

@TESOLoz I most certainly did 🎨 🧑‍🎨

@AClarke28 Did you make that artwork with them? ‘Love it! ‘Missing you x

It is such a treat being a teacher! I said goodbye to these little gems after 5 months and now on to a new group of children to help with literacy and numeracy 💪