Reading Rocket Goals

For student goals in reading we are using the Reading Rocket programme. We have used this for high frequency words and to guide our own teaching practise over the last couple of years but this year we are trying to make it more explicit for our learners. The correct Rocket goes home in their reading diary and is dated as they achieve different LIs. We then highlight the next goal. Most of them are the same within the group. It helps to remind us to go over them at the start and end of each reading lesson. The goals usually have a visual to match.

The students also have a sight word card each. They are to learn 3-5 words a week and are tested on a Wednesday at the library. They need to be able to read and write the words. We have also created the word cards for the wall to be used in writing time, the same colours as they reading rockets so that they know which colour words they are learning. They practise the words in class time during the writing rotation using magnets and pen and paper.