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Pt1420 Unit 5 Assignment 1

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Class organisation 34T 2018
Literacy
Reading
Initial groups were based on end of year 2017 result/benchmark and have been assessed and grouped to skills and needs for higher order thinking and grouped accordingly. Groups are based on teacher observation and current assessments and will be adjusted to accommodate the needs and abilities of the students during year. The class has been divided into five literacy groups.
Children will also work in groups for other academic areas such as handwriting, phonics, guided, structured and independent writing and sight word recognition.
Writing
This entails working on the Seven Steps to Writing Success will be taught twice a week and writing tasks will also be included during literacy groups. Sizzling Starts and recounts will be the focus text in term one. Narrative and creative writing will be taught too and in both cases the emphasis will be on creating strong sentences with good structure. The lesson format for sizzling starts and narrative/creative writing will be explicit teaching to the whole class. My role as a teacher will be to identify the student’s level and provide appropriate feedback to support to move students toward the next level. …show more content…

News will be held every day in a “show and tell” format initially, and then moving to a more formal approach with set tasks. Year 1 will also complete in the school talkfest competition.
Mathematics
At present tasks are either varied or differentiated as needed and usually come from a combination of units in program, new curriculum documents, new 2017 MCPS Scope and Sequence the DENS stage 2/3 book. The students participate as a class in oral counting and oral work in time.
The structure of the lessons included:
• Ignition – warm up

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