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DEAR READER
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PROMPT 8
Searching the hashtag #picturebooks on Twitter, was a completely different experience to the Tumblr hashtag. I found that the Twitter search had a lack of colour and illustrations, instead it was filled with an abundance of text, consisting of user’s opinions and thoughts,
For a class activity, I would defintely stick to the platform of Tumblr, as it gives students a richer experience and more chance of finding something valuable to them.
PROMPT 7
Whilst exploring the tag #picturebooks, I was in awe of the abundance of colour and illustrations that sprung onto my computer screen. it has really shown me, how big of a social platform Tumblr is, and the many, different ways in which individuals use it, to express themselves and share their own artwork.
Whilst exploring this tag, I stumbled across the following picture, which depicts the relationship between a reader and a writer. I really loved this picture as it was a great way to explore and understand the relationship that you wouldn’t usually think about, being between a reader of a book and the writer of that book.
Photo credit to: http://namiwaka.tumblr.com/post/143380096347/the-relationship-between-reader-and-writer
PROMPT 6
After watching the video ‘Welcome to Shelley Beach’. I think a great front-loading activity based around this video would be asking students to think about their own ‘special place’. We would base a discussion around these special places, the discussion may include comparisons of the special places and similarities and differences. Students may even have the chance to draw their favourite place also, these could then be hung on the wall for a special display of ‘Grade..’s Special Places’.
PROMPT 5
Part 1:
I felt hollow and transparent on that cold night, a part of me died. My lack of food, left me with little to no strength, and slowly all I could hear was silence.
Part 2:
The world’s biggest problems are basically transparent to those not in need.
Part 3:
A basic twenty minute front-loading lesson for the book could be having students complete a KWL chart. This could be done both before the book with predictions, and after the book with evidence of knowledge and learning.
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!
WEEK FOUR REFLECTION
Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures of my classroom walls and displays whilst on placement. However, I do remember that the walls were absolutely chocker block full with the students work.
The majority of the work was mini projects and big projects that the students had completed. I do remember there being a ‘Goal’ wall on one of the walls. This wall had all of the students learning goals on it, along with their progress. The goals were for reading, literacy and numeracy.
The students loved the goal wall, and took a lot of pride in it, especially when showing it to myself and explaining the meaning behind it. At the beginning of each week the students check their learning goals and during their work strive to reach that goal.
On a Friday morning the students complete a ‘Mad Minute’ which was based around their time tables. The students loved this morning activity, especially so because they were able to put their scores onto the goal wall and take pride in their accomplishments!
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!
WEEK THREE REFLECTION
I am continually making connections within text in my everyday life. Before reading the reflection and pondering it, I had not realised just how many different ways I make meaning with text.
I have read text messages from friends, and written text messages to friends. I have read uni assignments and written uni assignments. Read the newspaper, read emails, connected with family via messenger.
I have read tumblr blog posts. This week I actually finished the book Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, something I had been reading for a while.
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.
WEEK TWO REFLECTION
A prediction activity that I would use in my classroom when introducing the book ‘Are You Seeing Me’ by Darren Groth would be to have my students gather in a circle and share some emotions that they feel when they look at the cover of the book. They could also during this circle share time, share any thoughts they have when they look at the images on the front cover. Later they could head off into small groups, and predict further, using mind maps and PMI charts. To bring this activity to a close, I would gather the students to the floor again and read the first chapter of the book to them. After the first chapter we would have a class discussion about our predictions and if they were correct.
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
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
REFLECTION 1
When I was in Primary School I remember reading Danny The Campion Of The World by Roald Dahl with my grade 2 peers and teacher. This book to this day is still one of my favourites, and I remember the excitement myself and my peers felt when we would read another chapter! We would beg and plead my teacher to read another chapter every time we would read it! My teacher was a brilliant person to listen to as they read. She would be so enthusiastic with every word and was always using amazing expression! Another one of my most fond memories of reading books was when I was in year 9. My school had a farm program, where we would stay at the school’s farm for 5 weeks and work each day. Every morning we would be read to by one of our cooirdinators. He woould read to us Noah’s Ark. What made this a very fond memory of mine was that our coordinator would do a different voice for each animal in the book. And although all us girls were in year 9 we loved listening to him and were far more engaged with him using voices! Both of these books are something that I would 100% be reading in my classroom in the future along side all my other favourite childhood books. I would like my students to love reading just as much as I did and still do!
Georgie.
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!
