Foundation Class
DAILY REVIEWS IN PREP
What are Daily Reviews?
Every morning we start our Literacy lessons with a Daily Review. This is where the students practice, consolidate and learn to become automatic in their knowledge, skills and strategies from short term to long term memory. We begin a by reviewing what was covered in the last few lessons so that recently acquired knowledge and skills are activated and those connections are reinforced. This has been a gamechanger in the Prep class.
Our Daily Reviews, take about 15 minutes and it is where the students actively participate by using skills such as
Self‐verbalisation
Choral responses
Think Pair Share opportunities
Multiple opportunities for practice
What are in Daily Reviews?
We cover a large range of literacy areas in our Daily Reviews and can be unlimited but some of the areas we include are
Phonological awareness (particularly isolating phonemes, short and long vowels)
Syllabification
Read and spell high frequency words to automaticity
Vocabulary
Phonics: short/long vowels, digraphs
Spelling, punctuation, grammar rules
Passage reading and comprehension strategies
The Daily Review technique has made a great deal of difference to my students’ learning.
Daily review, Consolidation, Warm‐Up… whatever you call it, it’s a gamechanger in our classroom and we love it!