I'm so enjoying going back over it! Rae Black introduced it to us in Waimata in 2016 when she was studying ALL (Literacy) and it was great to have it brought to our attention again this year.
I particularly love the section about Success Starters and am always reminded to go back to that when I feel my reading programme has lost its spark. It's so easy to get hung up on getting the work done, that it's easy to leave off this great ignition in the beginning and really not fire the lesson up.
This time when I went back to the reading, it was the TIP Chart that resonated with me. I heard Carrie mentioning a TIP chart when working with her Enrichment kids the other day and so when I read about it again, my interested was piqued.
I was thinking about how great a TIP (Term, Information, Picture) Chart would be for the frogs reading unit I'm going to run with a group of my boys who aren't that fond of reading. There will be a lot of terms within our frog readings (amphibian, chorus, cold-blooded, habitat, predator) that will require them to develop an understanding and this will be a great tool to help with this.
Further to this, as I kept reading, I realised that some of the Success Starters would be particularly useful in this context as well. I'm excited to see how they work for us this week, now that we've finished our speech planning and can focus in more strongly on our reading programme this week.
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