RTLit Meeting - 5/11/15

This meeting was a Chch East School for SENCOs. We meet the RTLits for our area; Anna-Marie, Pene (Breens) and Liz.

The RTLit service focus on students 2 years or more below their age. There is 1 RTLit for every 7 RTLBs. Their focus is reading/writing/oral language.

They provide advice, modeling and guidance. They sometimes might provide direct instruction to individuals or groups.

They mentioned Gail Gillon: rhyme - syllable - onset&rime - phoneme

They also named a few very good resources -

7+ www.sharpreading.com (short-term reading intervention programme for students who are reading at least at the average age of 7 and sho are behind the National Standards.

Storytelling Schools  www.storytellingschools.com  3 texts storytelling, storytelling myths and fables and storytelling in science. Great for getting oral languague of writing going before students write.

Progress in Learning  www.progressinlearning.co.nz/about.html

Trugs - Phonics game which is apparently great fun. would be great to have in classrooms.

Clicker Sentences

Peter & The Black Cat - assessment for oral language; it is not a norm-referenced text but gives a descriptive profile of the student. Also an app but is $30 and takes a while to analyse.