Year 5/6 or HA Year 4 Model Text to use for a T4W unit.

Use evidence based research and adopt assertive questioning strategies in your classroom. This guide considers the pros and cons of using 1:1 voluntary and nominated techniques and suggests alternate (assertive questioning) strategies to ensure that: feedback for both the teacher and student is optimized, that student comfort levels are considered, that participation is high and that all abilities are included in discussions.

This simple approach allows you to explicitly teach the strategies - reading around / prior knowledge / visualisation / word class / what’s happening (context). Monitor performance as the children self mark which strategy they use and after time observe as the process becomes implicit. This unique approach does not predetermine the words but rather allows the children to highlight independently unfamiliar words. Next, they practice using a series of sentences and then paragraphs. Some linked, some not, ensuring the children become versatile with the strategies.

This guide gives you the perfect rationale for using poetry in the classroom, and gives suggestions as to how to approach the teaching of poetry, In addition it explains the value of using poetry with EAL children to develop comprehension skills without the need for them to read whole extracts of text. It also provides a clear methodology for eliciting children’s responses in a creative and personal way. This resource is evidence based and is written to support you as English lead or as a teacher looking to improve the provision of poetry in the classroom. To support suggested teaching methods, there is a selection of meta-cognition frames to encourage thinking about how we think!