Before children move to the independent phase, it’s important to provide interactive instruction to allow children time to practise and consolidate their understanding.
Within Interactive instruction, the teacher completes some of the steps and then the pupils complete the remaining steps. This reduces the demand on pupils and supports novice learners to be successful.
Checklist
| Provide partially complete examples for children to complete. | ✔ |
| Prompt and support guided tasks. | ✔ |
| Use talk partners to develop idea. | ✔ |
| Use mini-whiteboards to support all pupils to join in. | ✔ |
| Use choral responses to maintain engagement and to check for understanding. | ✔ |
| Use any learning support or teaching assistants to circulate and provide additional support. | ✔ |
Examples
In the following example, from adding three-digit numbers, the teacher could complete steps 1, 2 and 3 and then the pupils could complete the remaining steps with prompting. If the pupils are successful, the teacher then complete just steps A and B and repeats until the children move towards independence.
- Write one number underneath the other, carefully lining up the digits.
- Add the numbers in the one’s column.
- Add the numbers in the ten’s column.
- Add the numbers in the hundred’s column.
- Check that the answer is broadly what we were expecting.
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