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Finished illustrations for the new picture book!

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Prompt 8 Response:

I was surprised that there actually wasn’t really that many posts with the #picturebooks. I found many of the posts were illustrators sharing their work on what was going to be in books that were about to be released. I noticed there wasn’t many images of actual books, just illustrations without text which also surprised me. 

I chose these sets of illustrations to share because I really like the images and colours used throughout these illustrations. It looks like a really cute story. The illustrator has used bright colours which reflect to me it is going to be a happy story that young children would love. 

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Prompt 7 Response

I selected to critique a computer game called ‘Eerie Encounters’ found on the ABC Education Website. Here are my pros and cons notes. 

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Prompt 6 Response: RAN Chart

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Prompt 5 Response

The front cover of the book ‘DUST’ doesn’t give too much away about the book.

I would ask grade 6 students the following questions based on the front cover:

- Looking at the front cover predict: what do you think this story will be about?

- How does this front cover make you feel? 

- Has anyone noticed any small illustrations on the front cover? *Hinting at the hands reaching out of the ground*

- Do you think the colours used on the front page are happy colours? Explain.

- Why do you think they have written ‘save the children’ not as part of the title of the book? 

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Prompt 4 Response

Great experience: Last semester when I was on placement I had a grade 1/2 class. I ran a really fun writing activity. Students were either given a card with a certain character name on it (for example; a princess, toad, grandma), or a card with a certain setting on it (for example; a swamp, the snow, a cave). A student that had a character, had to pair up with a student with a setting. In pairs, the students had to come up with and write a story about their character and include the setting they were given. Some students got really into this and wanted to write a book, but they had to include in their stories a problem and a solution. 

Not so great experience: Not that I can remember, I haven’t really had any terrible literacy lessons, but this is the one that stood out in terms of not going so well. 

Last year when I was on placement in a prep class, I was reading a big book to the students that they had read multiple times. Throughout this reading of it, the teacher got me to cover up certain words throughout the book to see if children could remember what the word was... this turned into children guessing silly words and everyone laughing at their ‘funny’ answers. The lesson didn’t go as we thought it would, but still managed to get through the book with some students productively participating. 

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Prompt 3 Response

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*Sorry about the reflection on the photo, I didn't know how to save a PowerPoint presentation as a picture format so I took a photo of it on my phone*

Week Two Prompt Response

This was inspired by a lesson I took on placement about writing narratives and ‘sizzling starts’ to their narratives. the class was divided in half, half the students were given a character and the other half of the students were given a setting. A student with a character had to pair up with a student with a setting and collaboratively together they had to write a ‘sizzling start’ using their characters and settings. I made this poster to remind students what is included in a ‘sizzling start’. 

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Week One Prompt Response: 

As a child I spent a lot of time at my grandparents house. My grandma read to me a lot, every night before bed and whenever I would ask. In their lounge room they had a large book shelf full of all kinds of books. My grandma used to keep what she liked to call her “special books” in her wardrobe, that she would only read to me and my brother on occasion. Among these were two books by Graeme Base. ‘Animalia’ and ‘The Eleventh Hour: Curious Mystery’. These were my favourite books she read to me as a child, possibly influenced by the way my grandma referred to them as her “special books”. My grandma kept these in her closet so they were refrained from damage. I remember being amazed by the illustrations throughout these books, looking at each page for 10 minutes because the detail throughout the pages was so captivating. Throughout both books all the characters were animals, which I also loved.