Focus: introducing and establishing self-check and partner-check routines
One of the strategies we promote in The Oral Language Book is students generating questions as well as the teacher.
In 2018, Louise watched Tiana McNaughton from Mt Roskill Primary School in Auckland using 'Wheel decide' to support students to generate and answer questions during shared reading. You can create your own wheel, so it is a useful website.
Image by Arek Socha (Pixabay).
Focus: introducing and establishing self-check and partner-check routines
Includes: a writing template, a completed example and a follow-up Quick Write lesson plan
Focus: labelling and writing an explanation
A fluency phone, also referred to as a whisper phone or phonics phone, is a self-amplifying device.
Focus: using a fluency phone to support students during writing self-checks
