Responses to my hunches

During our CoL meeting last week we looked at our hunches and were able to share these with our other colleagues with this meeting. I thought I would just add in the suggestions and things that I discussed at that meeting incase it is of interest! 

Hunch One: If I encourage my students to share their ideas during guided reading sessions, then they will gain confidence in their reading and be able to answer questions related to what they have read. 

Give the students to have conversations as a group that are not necessarily related to what they are reading. These could be random topic prompts to get them talking and discussing ideas with each other. 

Hunch Two: If I focus on extending discussions with my group using strategies such as ground rules for talk they will be able to manage themselves to have group discussions. 

Go through ground rules for talking with the group and set this up really well. This will need to be teacher lead for a while. This will allow the students to know the roles and rules for sharing. 

Hunch Three: An emphasis on using images and specific generic tasks to show what inferring and other reading comprehension skills will enhance my students ability to understand more complex parts of the text and answer questions that require inferring and referring back to the text.

• Key into inference
• Sheena Cameron resources
• Images from online and websites to have the students think about the picture and what is happening from an objective lens. 

Hunch Four: An emphasis on understanding how to have basic conversations as well as teaching social skills and norms will enhance my students ability to share during reading sessions. 

Show how students can have a conversation, this may need to be demonstrated for the students and practised.