For prompt 2: Posters, I found it challenging due to my placement experience being with Preps. Their main reading and writing (literacy) activity they do on a weekly basis is ‘wow words’, which are words that are more interesting and enjoyable to read rather than basic words, for example ‘great’ instead of ‘good’ or ‘exclaimed’ instead of ‘said’. Everyday the students are read the same story in the week and then Wednesdays they stop throughout the story to identify ‘wow words’ and sound them out to spell them as a class, which is basically guided/modelled writing and modelled reading. The image is of the teacher’s example that I observed, based on the story The Ugly Duckling and afterwards the students get a worksheet with the heading and a picture of the duck on the side. They must write the ‘wow words’ on coloured paper and cut them out to paste on their paper. All the student’s work is displayed in the room until the next week’s book is read and then they change it to their next book’s ‘wow words’ poster. They have to keep this repetitive and therefore the teacher keeps the poster basic and simple so they focus in the writing and spelling rather than decorations on the sheet, the teacher does change the poster paper every week to keep it interesting. This is the only literacy related poster that was displayed in my placement classroom.
For the older year levels, it would be modified to more challenging topics such as adjectives, verbs, adverbs, nouns, etc. I would use this approach in my own teaching because the students seemed to enjoy it and participate.