Using structured literacy approaches with School Journals by anne robertson

introduce vocab before reading, strtucture of word, share what they know

jhair6 — 2025-06-26 04:09:16 UTC

Chat about prior knowledge - use a KWH. Brainstorm new knowledge

jhair6 — 2025-06-26 04:09:44 UTC

Look at morphology of vocab around the text. Make connections to previous reading

jhair6 — 2025-06-26 04:10:28 UTC

The Grammar/Syntax Project - look at how sentences are structured Ochre. Has great resources - free

jhair6 — 2025-06-26 04:11:47 UTC

Explicit teaching

jhair6 — 2025-06-26 04:12:28 UTC

Introduce the text, prediction, link to myself

jhair6 — 2025-06-26 04:13:00 UTC

Like an exemplar - pulling it apart and labelling different features etc

2025-06-26 04:14:47 UTC

This is powerful, using google notebook lm (podcast), book creator,etc

2025-06-26 04:15:08 UTC

Introduce any terminology, preloading unknown vocab, brainstorm topic of the book and link in with other learning

jhair6 — 2025-06-26 04:15:12 UTC

Exposing them to different sentence types/structure - hearing themselves speak (even though it's reading from the journal) could give them ideas how to write things differently

2025-06-26 04:16:16 UTC

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Introduce text-specific vocabulary as well as new words, including a child-friendly definition. Getting them to read the sentence with the word in it, so they are familiar with the word when they decode the text.

Having a wall display on the week's focus

2025-06-26 04:16:33 UTC

Use retelling cards of narrative organiser

jhair6 — 2025-06-26 04:17:00 UTC

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Reading alongside a buddy to help not only read the text but to develop fluency, accuracy and expression as they read more complex sentences.

journals display a variety of genres

2025-06-26 04:19:19 UTC