1. Key Elements of Effective Literacy Teaching Kelly Jordan 2011

2. A is for Keep assessment meaningful and ongoing Give students immediate feedback during assessment time. Set learning goals for your students. Ensure your students set goals for themselves. Assessment

4. Reinforce your lesson focus often.

5. Use magnifying glass for a visual reminder.

6. Tell parents in newsletters/emails.

7. Look at your data and prioritise what you want to teach.

8. Plan learning sequences which are thorough and explicit and which meet the needs of your individual students.Be explicit

10. Provides an authentic opportunity for students to write

11. Enables students to reflect on their learning

12. Provides a global awareness

13. Improves students’ geography knowledge through global connections

14. Develops students’ ICT skills

15. Increases student engagement

16. It’s fun!Class blogs

17. D is for Key Characteristics of Effective Literacy Teaching P – 6Explains different focuses for each year level.Find it on the network. DEECD

18. E is for Always allow students a few minutes at the end of each writing session to edit their work. They can also read a partner’s work and discuss/correct any errors. Editing posters we have made Editing Email me if you’d like these posters for your classroom.

19. F is for Make reading and writing fun for your students! In 2KJ and 2KM last year we held a special Reading Day in June. The whole day was devoted to fun reading-based activities. The kids loved it! Look online or at class blogs to get ideas for fun writing activities. My kids loved this Describing Feelings activity which I found on a USA class blog. Fun

21. Word decoding

22. Phrasing and fluency

23. Comprehension

24. Making inferences

25. Punctuation

26. Compound words

27. Adjectives, nouns, verbs etcGuided Reading

29. Depending on which letters are most commonly written incorrectly, we develop an order of letters to focus on.H is for Handwriting

30. I is for We need to give our students more opportunities to simply read for fun, and to practise their skills. Independent Reading = Reading for joy I blogged about Independent Reading on my literacy blog: http://teachingliteracy.globalteacher.org.au/2010/08/29/independent-reading/ Independent reading

32. Students write a Top Five list of things that happened on their weekend.

33. Students write about their dream weekend.

34. Students write about a weekend from a perspective of someone else...eg, A Zoo Keeper’s Weekend, or My Cat’s Weekend.

35. Students make a list of possible/impossible things that would happen on a weekend.Journal writing

36. K is for Check out Kathleen’s excellent resources in technology. She has thousands of followers from all around the world! Blog: http://primarytech.globalteacher.org.au Diigo:http://www.diigo.com/user/kathleenmcgeady Looking for websites to use in your literacy lessons? Save time by checking out her Diigo or Delicious bookmarking sites for thousands of great resources. Kathleen Morris

37. L is for I have a literacy blog where I share practical ideas, strategies and resources for teaching literacy skills in the classroom. http://teachingliteracy.globalteacher.org.au Literacy blog

39. Topics could be research-related, (Australian animals, Holden cars etc) current affairs (Watch the news one night and report on a story you found interesting), Personal Development (what is something that bothers you and how can you fix this), write a short story, make something out of paper and bring it in, explaining how you made it.Make show and tell more interesting

40. N is for NAPLAN practise should begin as soon as possible, particularly in Grades 2, 3, 4 and 5. Step 1: Demonstrate how to answer NAPLAN questions. Use the flipcharts Kathleen Morris made last year on your IWB. (Teachers – NAPLAN – Reading flipchart). Step 2: Give students past NAPLAN tests and complete as a whole class. Work with your lower students in a Guided Reading setup. Step 3: Allow students to independently work on NAPLAN examples. Give students feedback on how they went. NAPLAN

41. O is for An idea for the Preps... As you don’t start Reading Groups until later in Term 1, you could introduce “groups” earlier by having rotational Oral Language activities. Having a parent/integration aide would be handy! You could have... Bingo/picture game – Identify what pictures are on each card. Play doh – Make an object and describe it. Sorting table – Have an assortment of objects on the table and the children can sort and categorise. “Reading” non-text books – Students can make up the stories. Listening Post – Discuss the story afterwards. Oral language

42. P is for Students need to read with good phrasing and fluency. Why not record your students reading and have them analyse their phrasing and fluency? You could record your struggling students each month and have a record of their progress. If you have a blog you can even embed their reading through VoiceThread onto your blog. Phrasing and fluency voicethread.com

44. On the first day of school have each student ask another student an open question.

45. If you are watching a BTN episode, or reading a big book, ask students to think of a question to discuss at the end.

46. If you read a serial story to your class, choose 3 students each day to think of an open question about the part just read.

47. When students are reading to themselves in Guided Reading, have students think of one open question to discuss when you review the book.Questioning

48. R is for Let’s keep it clean and tidy!  Resource Room

50. Allow your Guided Reading group to explain something they focussed on.

51. Who overcame a problem during the session?

52. What tips do students have for groups doing the activity tomorrow?AN IDEA Having share time at the end of the lesson seems a little wasteful because students are not putting anything into practise straight away. Consider sharing half way through your lessons. Share time

53. T is for We must include technology in our literacy teaching to fully meet the needs of our students in 2011. Some of my favourite sites to use during Literacy sessions: Behind the News British Council Class blogs Mee Genius Storyline Online The Age online Writing Fun by Jenny Eather Technology

54. U is for Comprehension and Understanding activities for the IWB/computers: A variety of comprehension activities http://gamequarium.com/ Character Scrapbook http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/ Stories written and read by students http://www.smories.com/ Behind the News http://www.abc.net.au/btn/ A variety of comprehension worksheets http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/ Understanding

55. V is for Visual literacies include diagrams, maps, tables, time lines and storyboards. It is important that our students are able to read and interpret these kinds of “texts”. Another idea – Using visual photos in literacy. Have you heard of the 365 project? People involved in this project take one photo every day of the year to share. You could do this with your students and have students write about the photo. It would be a unique way for your students to document their school year. Go to http://365project.org/ for more information. Visual Literacy

57. Teacher corrects, analyses and completes inventory chart to determine phonemic strengths/weaknesses for each child.

58. Students are given a spelling list each week to work on words at their level.

59. Students complete word sorts etc with their words.Deb is the expert with this program!  Words Their Way

60. Kelly Jordan Email: jordan.kelly.a@edumail.vic.gov.au Literacy blog: http://teachingliteracy.globalteacher.org.au Old class blog: http://2kjblog.globalstudent.org.au New class blog: http://2kmand2kj.global2.vic.edu.au/