Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you all had a lovely and enjoyable long weekend. On Friday staff attended a Professional Development lead by Glen Pearsall, a focus being in Engaging Instructional Practice. It was an insightful day and I came away with new tools and ideas to implement in the classroom. One of which has been the value of feedback and students owning their learning. I do aim to provide FAST, FREQUENT and FORMATIVE assessment/feedback, this is driven from the research undertaken from Dylan William.

The attached SPELLING program for Term 1 is a working document. It will be reflected on and owned by all Room 18 members. Students have worked alongside myself today to build and make understanding of the program. There are differentiated programs throughout the class.

The value system is implemented to ensure students are accountable and are stimulated to have success. It is expected students strive to achieve maximum points for each section. In self-reflection and feedback time students will be directed accordingly. Students are aware of what is expected of them for each task. This is positive as when student and teacher are reflecting and providing feedback the student has a good understanding of the criteria and the feedback is meaningful which will have high effectiveness for the student to follow up on.

The program (see below) has been included in this post along with this weeks list words (see bellow) from Jolly Grammar 3 as well as the challenging words from The Complete Phonic Handbook. Your child completed a pre-test today, they also self corrected their words. Incorrect words have become their learning words. Students will have 10-14 list words to learn. Students have built their list words to learn from the additional group provided from the Phonics Handbook.

Spelling Program link:

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Week 4 list word link:

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Below is the link for the spelling pack which some students may use to get them familiar with the program and how to set their work out.

Spelling Program Pack link:

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Enjoy your evening.

Kind regards,

Katina.