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Prompt 8

When searching the tumblr hashtag #picturebooks, I found a thread that listen numerous picture books for each holiday. The books shown here were from a thanksgiving thread. This is a good way for teachers to find books relating to upcoming holidays. Students typically get excited about holidays and by reading books relating to those holidays, the students are more likely to remain focused and interested in the reading, which therefore means that they’ll learn more.

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Prompt 7

http://education.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/2964246/curious-kids-why-does-english-have-so-many-different-spelling-rules

This is a good prologue to teaching spelling such as silent letters or outliers from spelling patterns. It explains why there are these differences and gives a background knowledge that would intrigue the students. However, this page is more of a teacher’s guide rather than something to give the students. Using this website, teachers should be able to give an interesting introduction to the spelling topics.

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Prompt 6

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Prompt 5

-          Who do you think this story is about? Why do you think that?

-          What is the significance of the 2 hands on the front cover?

-          What do you think is the meaning of the title?

-          Are there any features of this front cover that show that the book is related to children? If so, where?

-          How does this cover make you feel?

I understand that my prompts were not displayed in a multimodal way, but I had technical errors with the upload. They could be written on a poster/the board. They could be verbally asked or ask via a video. There are many ways to make these questions multimodal.

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Prompt 4

While I was not just on placement, I have experience with literacy learning in my previous placements. One particular example that has stuck with me was when teaching literacy groups. At University they tell us to try and steer clear of grouping students into groups based on academic levels, but this class had done just that.

It might not work for every classroom, but this class were so comfortable with each other that everybody loved their groups and during literacy time, they were better behaved than they were at any other time of the week. This allowed the teacher to work with the students in small groups and trust that others were doing what they were meant to.

During this literacy time, there were 5 different groups, each group would be given an activity, whether that is working on their spelling words, completing a worksheet etc. The last group would be on the floor working with the teacher reading and exploring different books. One book that a group was reading that I enjoyed working with the students for was a book about fossils. The students were all amazed at the different facts in the book and we ended up taking double the time to go through the book because they were all learning so much. When students are interested in what they are reading, their ability to learn and comprehend the stories greatly improve.

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Prompt 3

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This poster is an awesome way to visually show students the differences between different styles of writing.

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Prompt 1

As I was going through Primary School, the Harry Potter series was coming out. I was a very passionate reader and used to read the Harry Potter books with Dad every night before bed. I believe that this greatly improved my reading ability, but it also increased my bond with the Dad and improved my confidence in reading big novels.