Sharp Reading - Step 4: Convince Me
A part of Sharp reading PLD is the online learning. I've been working through Stage 3 and have just completed the unit 'Convince Me'. Key points: this part of the lesson allows children to attend to meaning in sentences it's a quick, guided opportunity to collaboratively improve understanding and lift thinking and engagement it's a change of pace in the lesson - teacher adopts role of judge, it's quicker/timed and more of a game During 'Convince Me' the teacher selects one sentence from the text for the students to rework successfully within two minutes. The teacher is judge and prompts student thinking. Prompts: Repeat a phrase/word from sentence Say the trigger (direct don't question) 'Got it' etc. to affirm that's enough, we can move on The limited prompts provides a constraint for the teacher so it's the students doing the thinking, not the teacher. The teacher motivates the students to 'dig deeper'. A helpful part of t...