Writing has been a massive area of growth for me this year. Through structured literacy I had really altered my lens to writing. For one, the penny had really dropped for in in regards to how hard the process of writing is. Until I started my structured literacy journey I really had only scratched the surface on knowing just how many jigsaw parts had to go into being a writer. While I had really started to master the focus on the mechanics of it all and the explicit teaching of the code, I still had not really thought about how children come up with an idea, or considered just what a huge cognitive load this process is, when everything else is being focused on at the same time. With my focus on sentence level comprehension and fluency in reading, it was only logical that my next step was to do this in writing. This is where colourful semantics came in. An oral language approach, it suited my needs down to the ground. Allowing me to teach the sp...
I am passionate about play and structured explicit learning, finding the best of both worlds.