Remote Literacy Lessons
In March of 2019, Wood Oaks, and all other schools, closed due to the pandemic. Here is a sampling of how we adapted our instruction and worked to maintain the academic and social-emotional development of students during the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years.
Remote Novel Group Lesson
This is part one of a guided novel study geared towards one of my sixth-grade reading groups. The students in the group played baseball and our unit theme was "survival." In writing, we were studying peotry, and so this is a novel in verse.
The video strives to meet the needs of audio and visual learners. I use pre-reading strategies to begin the video and then I use during reading strategies by posting slides that highlight main ideas. Then, at the end, I ask students to make predictions, and I preview the next section of the novel.
After watching the video, students had a FlipGrid assignment to complete. This assignment served as a remote class discussion after each section of the novel.
Remote Learning: Daily Lesson Overview Video
This is a daily remote learning overview lesson video. It is about poetry and it connects to the genre of the novel study. Each daily video is intended to help students manage the week's digital work by providing work-management strategies. The lesson itself is the modeling of a task: writing blackout poetry.
Homeroom Video Project: Some Good News
Aside from academics, my co-teacher and I worked with our students on some projects intended to maintain and strengthen the bond and relationships that we all developed while school was in-person. Here's an example of a video that we made sharing good news during a difficult time. We then asked the wider school community to send us their good news videos on Flipgrid as well.
Remote Curriculum Night 2020: Reading and Language Arts
During the 2020-2021 school year, Wood Oaks Junior High adopted a hybrid learning model. With this in place, we held a virtual curriculum night. Here is the video that I provided for my sixth-grade reading and language arts families.