Observation - Literacy / Rewindable Learning Focus

Observation with Clarelle and her year 3 class at Point England School.

I wanted to focus on Literacy and rewindable learning to increase my own abilities in providing rewindable learning.

Notes from observation:

• New writing topic / WALT up on her writing site
• Theme - Beach/sea, language discussion: What do you see, hear, feel, taste?
• Turn to person next to you what do you see?
• Digital prompt Explain Everything - beach image with playback audio.
• Teacher has gifted great figurative language.
• Timers: 20mins, 5minutes check-ins hold fingers up how many sentences. Next checkin how many more sentences can you write.
• Verbal prompt: You need a Topic Sentence that tells where you are.
• Students using the digital prompt and playback on their individual ipads. Learning is well scaffolded as digital prompt and gifted language is right in front of students. Her class were all very engaged and forming sentences easily. She mention wanting to increase the speed in which they write.
• Sharing circle / buddied up - Speed Stories. If you’re on the outside you read your story. Fast. Then move along. How many times can we read in 5mins?
• Teacher marks work after school and students publish it to blog on the following day. 
• Students are publishing to their blogs quite independently.

My thoughts:

• Great use of rewindable learning, I love how students have the writing prompts/gifted language right there in front of them. Very engaging with image/audio and easy to use.
• Her students are publishing work to blog more independently than my students, this motivation to finish work and publish each week is something I want to enable my students to do more independently.
• I can see potential in creating digital writing experiences that increase my students vocabulary. This with have benefits across the curriculum.
• I'd like to add student voice/contributions when making these digital prompts for our writing lesson.