EVIDENCE!

Examples of one student's work during the vocabulary intervention, "We Adore Words."

Themes

I have been working my way through my data, over and over - reading, coding and organising it into a manageable narrative. Luckily the themes that have emerged relate directly to my research questions, and in fact, answer these.

I have also been thinking further about where I could take this next. I am very interested in getting hold of Jannie van Hees' new book What Every Primary School Teacher Should Know About Vocabulary, and also looking further into what the Talking Matters group are working on.

Week 14... counting down until I'm back in the classroom.

Week 14 of study leave...

I can hardly believe it! I only have three weeks of leave left. The time has gone incredibly fast and sometimes I worry that I haven't got as much done as I wanted to. It's often not until you take the time to look back on what you have done that you realise you have achieved a lot.

The following screenshots are of activities that I have created for Year 1 students to practise using what I have termed "powerful words." The goal had been to expand their vocabularies of words around feelings so that they are able to express their emotions more accurately, and hopefully this can translate in to their writing and reading comprehension.

                               

                        

                              

Getting my thoughts down on paper... or Padlet

Sometimes we need to revert to the good old brainstorm. I'm very much a visual learner, and I often revert right back to a big piece of paper and makers to help me get my ideas down.

I have completed my literature review for my dissertation and now I am working on the design of the intervention. This is the fun part!