"Guided practise is typically where learning activities involve thorough explanations, high frequency. Short answer questions or simple tasks where the teacher and students are engaged interactively, with plenty of modelling, corrective or affirming feedback and aspects of reteaching where gaps remain.”

Tom Sherrington “Rosenshine’s Principles in Action”

Choral Repetition

Choral repetition is one way to guide student practise.

For example

In a Grade 3 lesson on fronted adverbials for dramatic impact: students practise these sentences, repeatedly stating the stem with each variation of ending they made up.

“Quick as a flash…”

• He disappeared behind the fence.
• He climbed over the tower.
• She conjured up a potion.

Check for student understanding.

Again, this sounds so basic. Of course, good teachers check that students have understood. But HOW do we do it?

Things like “Do you have any questions?” (See picture below!) are not very effective.

Rosenshine says that we should be clear and specific when checking for understanding or CFU. One way is to shift our thinking to not ask “Have you understood?” but “What have you understood?” and give time for students to answer.

And here is a favourite non-example of CFU. ?

Education of the Whole Child

Kindergarten learning about Noah's Ark.

Literacy Groups with Miss McIver

Poetry with Ms OG.

God bless,

Stephanie Stewart

Assistant Principal (Acting)