Untitled

[ecl310ag-blog]

Prompt 8

I searched #picturebooks on Instagram and so may different things came up. Lots of pictures of picture books came up, as well as many pictures of children reading books which was good to see. Something that was different to searching the hashtag on tumblr was a few drawings and different artworks of the front covers of some picture books. Like mentioned in the last post Little Bot and Sparrow cam up straight away. 

[ecl310ag-blog]

Prompt 7

I was amazed at how many different things came up when I searched picture books. There were heaps of references to lots of different picture books and images from picture books with comments and reflections. I was interested in the different pictures that came up, especially from illustrators, explaining their drawings. 

There was also links that promoted new books coming out. 

Little bot and Sparrow was a book that I found where the author shared the idea for her book and how it came about. 

[ecl310ag-blog]

Prompt 6

http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1539163/indigenous-language-map 

The link above is an interactive Indigenous language map, after translating these words into English students could write possible sentences with the words. 

What do they think they mean? Do their sentences reflect on the Indigenous meaning? 

The map also allows students to explore the Indigenous words and be able to see where in Australia this language is spoken. 

[ecl310ag-blog]

Prompt 5

We all live in this the hollow earth. 

When the night turns cold silence is present. 

Eventually everything becomes transparent.

Having no food means having no strength, I could have died. 

My sentence for the attached image:

It’s easier to ignore things when you're not scraping through life. 

[ecl310ag-blog]

Week 4

I think classroom displays can be quite beneficial for students. Nothing that is over the top but some simple displays can work quite well. I was in a foundation class for placement and the classroom teacher had a display of the golden words (and other colours). I found this to be quite useful as the students were constantly referring to them when doing writing tasks. They were becoming more and more familiar with the words. They were bale to recognise how many golden words they had used in their writing. 

[ecl310ag-blog]

Week 3

The main types of texts I read change weekly. 

Of course Facebook, texts, the newspaper and emails occur nearly everyday. But the things I enjoy reading the most are different types of blogs and also autobiographies. I love to read autobiographies I find them so interesting and I love learning about different types of people and their stories. 

[ecl310ag-blog]

Week 2

A simple predication activity that I would do for the book ‘Are you seeing me?’ would be getting students to write down some dot points on what they think the book is about from just the title first. After they have made some predictions I would then show students the front cover and have them do the same thing. Do their predications change? Or stay the same?. 

[ecl310ag-blog]

Week 1

When I was in grade 4 I had a very passionate teacher. She was particularly passionate about reading stories to the class. Every book she would read she would use so much expression and really get the class in to the story.You couldn't take your eyes off her when she had a book in her hands. Every time I read a book to a class I think back to my grade 4 teacher and how absorbed I was in the story through the use of different expressions and how captivating in can be.