SWI @ The Nueva School: A Grade 2 classroom

Описание: In this video, Sam Modest discusses the process he and his co-teacher, Erin Metcalf, are going through to refine structured word inquiry practice in their Grade 2 class at the Nueva School where I have been a "visiting scholar" for the 2015-2016 school year.

See how they work to balance "teacher-led inquiry" where they select orthographic topics for study and "inquiry-led teaching" where they draw on questions from students to provide the bases of their inquiries -- even when they do not yet know the "answers" to those questions. They purposely take on questions like the morphological structure of the word "hypnosis" even though they don't know what it is.

See more on structured word inquiry and the distinction between "teacher-led inquiry" and "inquiry-led teaching" at this link...

www.wordworkskingston.com/WordWorks/Structured_Word_Inquiry.html

Note how Sam and Erin let themselves hit questions beyond what they know as a team of learners with their students and then model the process of drawing on analysis with word sums and resources like Gina Cooke's "Word Matrix Study Sheets" book (www.linguisteducatorexchange.com) to help guide their analysis.

Sam and Erin are also continually refining their own understanding of orthographic concepts and terminology. It was just this year that they decided to dive into the use of IPA symbols to help them investigate orthographic phonology. Study with Real Spelling Tool Box themes and a visit from Lyn Anderson (Beyond the Word: www.wordsinbogor.blogspot.ca) provided structures that they used to refine how they could organize their own investigations of grapheme-phoneme correspondences. See this link on Lyn's website to see a presentation of the orthography of /f/ investigation Sam refers to.

www.wordsinbogor.blogspot.ca/2013/11/a-phonology-lesson-investigating.html

See more about my work with SWI at The Nueva School at this link:

http://www.wordworkskingston.com/Word...

To see a copy of the "4 Questions" that Sam and Erin use to structure their spelling investigations go to this link on Real Spellers

www.www.realspellers.org/forums/pedagogy/1302-4-questions-chart-revised

Explore www.wordworkskingston.com for more on structured word inquiry. Follow the link for "About WordWorks" as a good starting point with many videos, resources and my published research relevant to this topic.