The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan ~ A Unit of Study (Yr 4 upwards) This lesson provides students with the opportunity to develop their literal and inferential comprehension skills with the use of a fictional text.
This unit of study includes predicting, discussing and viewing before assessing students’ comprehension abilities. Arts Ideas can also be incorporated into this unit. The joy in this lesson is the students predfictions, impressions and descriptions are so varied it provides evidence to the students how we all interpret differently. Picture This! Visual Literacy in the Classroom. Research shows that Visual Literacy, “a person’s ability to interpret and create visual information—to understand images of all kinds and use them to communicate more effectively,” is a successful strategy for all learners (Burmark, 2002, p. v).
But what does this really involve? In the preface to Burmark’s book Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn (2002), Tad Simons defines visual literacy as “a learned skill, not an intuitive one. It doesn’t just happen. One becomes visually literate by studying the techniques used to create images, learning the vocabulary of shapes and colors, identifying the characteristics of an image that gives it meaning, and developing the cognitive skills necessary to interpret or create the ideas that inform an image, be it a television show, photograph, painting, chart, graph, advertisement, Power Point slide, animated GIF, or monster movie” (p. v).
So what does this look like in the classroom? Albers, P. (2007). Alberto, P. Wayspicturetells. EvaluatingPixBooks. Resource 1. Australian_curriculum_-_english. Petaa_nswsyllabus. A morning in Year 6. A new beginning → My summer is over.
I am in Adelaide on a PYP course and slowly my school brain cells are coming to life. As usual part of my awakening is a […] Team work → I have always promoted team work in my classroom, sometimes I will put my students into groups, at other times I will let them choose. Why I love Wednesdays → Wednesday – The hump day, a not quite halfway through the week kind of a day. NMA - Collections search results. Www.nma.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/19633/Analyse_political_cartoons_bw.pdf. Digital Storytelling. Academic Vocabulary Games. Vocabulary Strategies - Learning Tasks. Effective Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary. Doing It Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary.
Every Monday my seventh grade English teacher would have us copy a list of 25 words she'd written on the board.
We'd then look up the dictionary definitions and copy those down. For homework, we'd re-write each word seven times. Good, now you know it. Test on Friday and never for those 25 words to be seen again. Poof. Copying definitions from the dictionary we would probably all agree is not an effective way to learn vocabulary.
The truth is, and the research shows, students need multiple and various exposures to a word before they fully understand that word and can apply it. Selecting Words Ah, so many words, so little time. Vocabulary Instructional Strategies: Marzano's 6-Step Process. By Kimberly Tyson, Ph.
D. Vocabulary Ideas compiled by Deb.doc. Expanding Vocabulary, One Schools Creative Idea (ARTICLE) Expanding Vocabulary, One School's Creative Idea (ARTICLE) We are always looking for clever and creative ideas for supporting children as they work on expanding their vocabulary.
We received permission from Darlene, a literacy coach from Canandigua, New York, to share with you her school-wide vocabulary initiative call "Big Dog Words. " The initiative is grounded in the research by Isabell Beck, PhD and her work with 'tier two' words. (you can read more about these types of vocabulary words in her book: Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction by Isabel L. Beck, et. al.) International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Online Keyboard LEXILOGOS.
Teaching Challenges: Literacy Unit - Rowan of Rin. This week we began a novel study on the book Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda.
This is an adventure story that usually appeals to boys aged 9-12 and can be that motivator that hooks them into reading. Emily Rodda is brilliant at crafting stories that appeal to reluctant readers. Another of hers that I love is Finders Keepers.I'm going to keep a record here of the activities we do with each chapter. I have been using the Four Roles of the Reader to develop these activities. Lettrs. Rowan of Rin.
Writing. Free Educational Games Online. The Literacy Block. Saturday, 7 July 2012 at 3:47 pm A literacy block should provide a balanced program of literacy instruction including the following teaching/learning approaches to support reading and writing.
Essential Reading Components: Modelled Reading occurs when an expert reader reads a difficult text to less experienced readers, enabling the experienced reader to model how effective readers sound, solve and think about texts when readingThe “think aloud” strategy is used strategically by the expert reader to model thinking and problem solving actions. Reading Aloud. Literacy Resources. Literacy Resources for Teachers 2010 Improvement Plan (.doc) 2010 Improvement Plan (.pdf) Blank Frayer Model (.doc) Blank Frayer Model (.pdf) Bloom - One Page Poster (.doc) Bloom - One Page Poster (.pdf)
