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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

#inference

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Armin Greder, Australia to Z, Allen & Unwin, Jan 2016, 32pp., $29.99 (hbk), ISBN: 9781760113186 Armin Greder’s Australia to Z uses the form of an alphabet book to represent problematic aspects of Australian culture and identity. Each letter has a full page illustration in muted, minimalistic colours. The book is dark and disturbing, even grotesque.

This looks like the end of the story; but it isn't!

Beatrix Potter

The last prompt, PROMPT 8

This week we are still using the hashtag #picturebooks

Your task this week is to do a search using the hashtag, in another social media platform. Can you search Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms using the #picturebooks hashtag.

Make a comparison with last weeks results, tell us what you have found.

Reflect on whether or not you could use the hashtag to research something related to what your class is doing. Can you unlock a whole world of information to help your class become researchers using online information? Could your class hashtag #sustainability #palmoilfree #poverty

Is the hashtag a viable alternative to do doing classroom based research via Wikipedia, on-line encyclopaedia's, and designated websites found with a google search?

Thank you to all of those that have made an effort with your reflections, there have been some absolutely stunning TUMBLR posts and we are very proud of those that have taken on the challenge,

Regards

The ECL310 team.

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Prompt 7

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 then have a look at the numerous TUMBLR posts that include that hashtag 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 #ecl3102016, and #ecl310prompt7 and #picturebooks

Happy Hashtag Hunting

From the ECL310 team!

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Prompt 6

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 look at one of the many grade 5 and 6 videos. You can check the grade 5 and 6 boxes, as well as the video box, down the left hand side.

After watching one of these indigenous related videos, describe how you might use this particular video in the front loading of a literature unit based on an Australian and Torres Strait Islander book. You may choose any of the video’s, and you don’t have to match it to a particular book. For this purpose you don’t need to have a specific book, but if you do know one, then that would be great,

good luck

The ECL310 team

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PROMPT 5

Welcome back to those that have been on placement, and to everyone else. This weeks seminar involves the powerful children’s picture book Dust. First, I would like you to write a sentence using every word in the Wordle attached to this post. Many of you have already done this in seminars, you can just re-use the possible sentence you have already written, or add in a new one. The entire book is available to be read, in the week 6 seminar file on Cloud.

Second, I would like you to re-write the sentence for the attached image of the food being placed in the rubbish bin. Just one sentence, but it can be a challenge as you already know what the sentence is!

Both of these great front-loading activities were devised by Marsha Dickins and are two of several that were modelled in the seminars. Finally, for a third reflection, can you briefly describe another short ten-to-twenty minute front-loading lesson you may do, before the book is read.

Good luck!

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Teenagers who regularly play online games are more likely to get better school scores, an Australian study suggests.

In what could be music to the ears of many parents, teenagers who regularly play online games are more likely to get better school scores, an Australian study suggests.

#information and communication

Prompt 4

Classroom Displays

I found this today in a local Primary School. I spoke to the teacher about it.The teacher is hesitant to take the bold step of incorporating real social media platforms in to her classroom for a number of reasons. The students do use EDMODO as a form of Facebook, which is a closed cache able to be accessed by the students and the school only. Some of the students use EDMODO regularly, such as one of my daughters. Several of her classmates never use EDMODO at all.

This Twitter Feed board seems to work quite well and the students enjoy seeing each others posts.

The #dismoment heading in the image is a reference to a resilience project the school is working on.

For discussion this week, please take a photo of something interesting you see in the classroom on placement, remember to ask for approval. If the teacher seems hesitant don’t push it. Remember, no children’s images whatsoever.

Displays that are unusual and even unique would be great, or displays that you think are just downright impressive will also qualify. It may be a great writing task someone has done, an interesting method of teaching a writing genre perhaps, or a class project. Please make sure names are blurred or any child's full name is unable to be identified.

Some of you are not on placement, can I get you to reflect on your opinion of what is good content, and what may be unhelpful content in a classroom display.

If you don’t want that as a prompt, go back to the top of this prompt and have a reflective moment on what your current attitude is with social media and the classroom. There are some stunning successes, but also some difficult cyber bullying narratives, what do you think about all of it?

We hope you are enjoying placement, and if you get the chance, see if you can grab a literacy planner. This might be a whole year planner, a term planner, a monthly planner or even a weekly planner. A Gardiner’s Multiple Intelligences / Bloom’s Taxonomy / VCOP / CAFE or similar planner would be terrific. These are rich sources of literacy teaching thought, and will be something to help you in ECL410 next year,

good luck!

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Multi-literacies.

For this weeks reflection I would like you to make a list of all the different ways you have made meaning from text, in the last week.

Personally, to name a few, I have read The Age on-line, written and read emails, I communicated with an old-friend on Facebook, I have had text messages from friends and family, I have read a graphic novel, called Sisters by Raina Telgemeier. I also read a few chapters of a novel by Thomas Keneally, I looked at a sports catalogue, read a newspaper, read a scoreboard, read a smart board and I have used numerous other different source of text.

It is difficult to remember all the different types of reading i have done.

This week please reflect on the main types of texts you read, what are your most common sources, is it blogs, emails, text messages, or rather novels, magazines and text books. Whatever it is please let us know what you are reading,

regards

the ECL310 team.

#ecl3102016 #ecl310prompt3 #multiliteracies

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Short Listed for the 2015 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers.

Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth, Random House Australia isbn:9780857984739

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Welcome to the week two prompt.

We have read many of your responses to the first prompt and we are thrilled with the lovely reflections many of you have posted - thank you!

This week we are going to use the cover of one of the books selected in the 2015 Children’s Book Council Awards. It is Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth.

For your reflection this week we want you to think of a prediction activity you could do, just using the cover. The cover has graphics and text, you can use either or both. We only want an idea, a thought, for a ten to fifteen minute activity. You can record your thought on video, or use audio record on a device. You might download a copy of the cover and add post-its with prediction questions on it. Or you can simply just write your thoughts. of what you might do if you were about to start reading this middle years text.

You may like to read Winch text book p92-94 if you are unsure of what a prediction tasks is, Winch explains further the reading comprehension approaches of Inferring, Predicting and Before Reading strategies.

Remember to add in the hashtag at the end of your reflections.

#ecl3102016 and also #ecl310prompt2

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WEEK ONE REFLECTION

The first prompt for 2016

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When I was in grade three I remember my teacher reading to the class Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. We sat in silence absorbing every word, it was fantastic!. The teacher read Roald’s next book Charlie and The Glass Elevator as well and it was also a big favourite. Years later I was lucky enough to be teaching my own grade 3 and 4′s when the Harry Potter series came out. Once again a class sat in silence absorbing very word as this time I read the novel to the grade.

For your reflection this week we would enjoy discovering your memories of being read to. Preferably this would come from your own classroom experiences, otherwise it can be a reflection on what a parent read to you, or if that doesn’t fit, you can share what you would like to read to a class when you have the chance.

All of the ECL310 team look forward to sharing in this,

be creative, make a video, a Wordle, a sound recording, a cloze activity, anything you like!

Good luck!

The ECL310 team!

#roalddahl #ecl3102016 #310prompts #ecl310prompt1

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The Holiday Prompt

Do you remember being asked to write about your holidays, on the first day of each each term? Well I do, sometimes it was easy, other times I did not have a great deal to write about. Can you reflect on your own experiences with this? Have you asked kids to do it in class yourself, have you used a holiday diary, a travel log, have you put together a photo album, did you write a blog, post to facebook, anything?

Hmmm!

We must have a chat about this in a seminar one day.

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