Room+2

Lyn White

__ROUND ONE__ In Room 2 Lyn and I made the most of having two teachers in the room, and gave extra teacher-time to the most at-risk learners. This enabled us to closely conference children in writing, speed up the progress of many children who find reading difficult, as well as providing an opportunity to improve the basic maths knowledge of a large group of children. I completed running records during this time and saw the links between phonics, the classroom reading and writing programme and the Lexia programme. Lexia offers great support for those children needing structured phonological intervention. It was exciting to see the great progress made by many children throughout the week.

__ROUND TWO__ Lyn and I used the fact that two teachers were available, to our advantage by taking small groups of similar ability children within Literacy and Numeracy to extend. It was a great opportunity for me to work with some very clever writers in a small group situation (undisturbed in the Group Teaching Room), as well as extend a Maths group with their knowledge of word problems for fractions. This meant that Lyn was able to focus more closely on her Literacy target group in writing, and provide extra conferencing opportunities on a needs basis. 