ECL310 2018 Student

Caitlin Barnaby, Student ID: 214239004

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Prompt 8 2018

ECL310 Prompt 8 2018

Research a #hashtag Your task for this prompt is to do a search, on TUMBLR, of #picturebooks. Type in #picturebooks to the search panel, and browse the numerous TUMBLR posts that are shown. We want you to find something and share!. You may find the details of a new picture book being released, you may find a discussion or information regarding an obscure, or famous picture book. If you see an interesting hashtag in one of the posts you may like to follow that. We ask you to reflect and report back on what you have found interesting when you have research #picturebooks. You may choose to follow some TUMBLR sites and recommend these to others. Remember to hashtag #ecl310deakin and #picturebooks

Good luck!

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Prompt 8: #picturebooks

When searching through #picturebooks it was interesting to find myself on memory lane. To see pictures of the pages of familiar books, even if I couldn’t name the book or recall the story, many pictures still brought about a settling nostalgic feeling.

I noticed the variated of picture books that are still of interest, on all different accounts from all different people around the world. It was also interesting to see what people consider to be appropriate for #picturebooks, as some accompanying images looks more like narratives, magazines or graphic novels. Many images of quotes were observed, which is not a surprising find on tumblr, but the famous Dr. Suess passages were certainly pleasant to come by.

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Prompt  7 2018

I would like you all to have a look at the fantastic teacher materials on this website.

For this weeks reflection, I would like you to browse the many grade 5 and 6 videos and materials available. CLICK into Resources, check the grade 5 and 6 boxes as well as the ENGLISH box.

You may or may not be able to match these resources to your particular AT2 book, either way, it is worthwhile knowing that the ABC always provide teachers with classroom worthy materials.

Your task is to critique one of the 5 / 6 English resources and critique it as if you are reporting back to fellow teachers in a planning meeting or a staff meeting. This may be a video or audio record, handwritten notes, formal notes, a mind-map or a similar cognitive organiser - be creative and we will be looking forward to hearing what you have to say!

good luck

The ECL310 team

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Prompt 7: War on Waste 

http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/digibook/2597026/war-on-waste

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Events

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PROMPT 6 2018

THE PHONICS DEBATE

The link above contains a video recording of a phonics debate provided here through the Australian College of Educators.

Your task is to watch and listen to some of this recorded debate.

You begin by forwarding the video to the 20-minute mark. Beginning around the twenty-minute mark you will see one speaker for the teaching of phonics, followed by a speaker who questions the positioning of phonics in the teaching of reading. The two speakers run from the twenty-minute mark until the 37 and a half minute mark.

Watch both speakers and take notes. After watching from the 20.00 to the 37.30 minutes mark, and having taken your notes, we ask you to complete a RAN chart to help organize your thinking. It is probably easier of you make your own RAN chart.

You may well be asked about Phonics at a job interview so it is worth starting to know more about this topic, now!

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ECL310 Prompt 6 Phonics Debate

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PROMPT 5 ECL310 2018

I hope that you have enjoyed placement and are back on board ready to work through until the end of the trimester.

In seminars this week we have looked at Before Reading, Frontloading, and Predicting. In the week 6 seminar Powerpoint, there are excellent activities based around Way Home by Libby Hathorn. I would encourage you to read the prediction and questioning strategies demonstrated in those slides, to help you to come up with 5 questions that you would ask grade 6 children, directly addressing the front cover of DUST. You can use ideas that were explored in the week 6 seminar.

Your challenge is to present these five questions in a multi-modal format, we encourage you to be creative here, how can you ask these questions in an engaging manner?

Good Luck

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Response to ECL310 Prompt 5

Taking a journey through the cover of ‘Dust’

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Placement - Prompt 4

Placement is an interesting part of becoming a teacher. These are the experiences that control your motivation and strive to become a teacher, as they provide you with an idea of what you will be doing for the rest of your life (ideally). As this was my 2nd experience at this particular school, teaching middle years science, it was comforting returning to the same teaching environment. But what was discomforting was how drastically low the students literacy skills were. With children in year 9 still not being able to read or comprehend text was confronting. Being a science teacher, this was an issue, as most words are detrimental to the text/ sentence/ instruction or question.

Being placed in a low SES school was challenging but a rewarding experience. I believe teaching something to a student in a low SES community is more rewarding than if they are from a high SES environment.

Hopefully I made a difference.

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Handwriting - Prompt 3

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Literacy poster - Using my Vocabulary - Prompt 1

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The wishing chair - Prompt 1

During grade 1, my teacher had a big book called The Wishing Chair, written by Enid Blyton. My teacher always spoke very highly of the book as it was her ‘favourite’ and we would only be able to read it after lunch if we were well behaved during the day. Her excitement rubbed off on all the students and encouraged us to be excited and want to work hard in order to read the book. The book was magical and interesting, which made it fun and rewarding. I will always remember this book, and I hope to read it to my students if they work hard and are well behaved. 

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