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PROMPT 8

When looking up picture books I was very keen to find an amazing Illustrator and I found one! Ovi is an illustrator for many books. I was very attached to her drawings. As much as the text and storyline make the book, how can you have a good picture book without PICTURES!! Love her soft and inviting pictures and even after seeing the pictures she is creating is making me want to read the books even though I don't know what they are about !!! Love the picture book # as so many ideas came up for new books I didn't even know existed. 

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HELLO 2017!

Happy to announce a new book  I illustrated “COWBOY CAR”, written by Jeanie Franz Ransom and published by TWO LIONS.

The book will be out in stores APRIL 11 2017.

Here is a short synopsis and a link to more info:

“A little car with a big dream…

Ever since Little Car was knee-high to his daddy’s hubcaps, he’s wanted to be a cowboy. Cowboys get to drive the range, wear big hats, and sleep under the stars. Everyone tells Little Car that cars can’t be cowboys, but he can’t stop dreaming of rounding up lil’ dogies by day and talking around the campfire at night. So Little Car packs his trunk and heads Out West. Vroom! Can he prove he has what it takes to be a true cowboy? Join Little Car as he zooms into the hearts of kids everywhere.”

https://www.amazon.com/Cowboy-Car-Jeanie-Franz-Ransom/dp/1503950972/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483545572&sr=8-2&keywords=ovi+nedelcu

more to come…

>oVi

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Prompt 7

Create- Thinking of Lengys family, where did his parents come from? And was Lengy born where his parents are from or where he born in Australia?

 Evaluate- Do you think Lengys family likes the restaurants they have? Talk about each individual member of the family

 Analyse- Why is the dad a bit anxious all the time and looking through the window to the other restaurant?

 Apply- Will all the changes to the restaurant make a difference? Do you think Lengy’ family works well together in the restaurant? Do you think the restaurant will do wells

 Comprehend- What does Lengy mean when he says Thai- lame? Why would he be saying this?

 Knowledge and Remembering- What does Lengy get called by his dad? , What is his brother's name?, who wipes their sweating hands on their apron?, Who ears the elephant hat?, What new items does the dad get for the restaurant,

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Prompt 6

The video I have chosen from this magnificent resource is “Tiwi music: keeping an ancient culture alive”. It's a great video that talks about how the Tiwi people didn't write down history but told stories through dance and song. The front-loading activity would be to get the students to work in groups and act out a strong together about the rain coming. They students cant write down how the rain is coming but it forced to use the ideas from the video and make their own story. Then you can use the book “Big Rain Coming by Germein Katrina”. The book is about a dance about the rain coming. You could read the story to the students after they have performed their dances and song and hear their reflection about what they learned. 

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Prompt 5

1. With no strength on a cold transparent night, the silence died as his hollow stomach begged for food. 

2. The world fills their empty plates with nothing but ignorance and carelessness. 

3.I would use a scenario front loading activity. With getting the students to think more deeply about the image and the content. the scenario would be- the newspaper company wants you to create a plate of food that from this mans trash you can give the boy in the picture. Also get them to talk about what food the boy might need and is the food is the trash healthy and good for the boy. Instruct the students to think about that food that is being thrown away is enough to feed this boy in the picture. 

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PROMPT 4

This placement was great for reading and writing. It was poetry time and the students were learning all the different types of poems. I really liked how the teachers had set up reading and writing in a days planner. Every day for a week students learnt a new type of poem. For example, Monday was Haiku poems. The first lessons were reading. Students were given a 10-minute lesson on what Haiku poems where. That had to read the poem and find out what poetry tools that had in them and then an anchor chart was made about the poems and we wrote one as a class. Students then moved into independent reading. When the writing lesson came about during the day, students were reminded of what a Haiku poem was. We wrote one together as a class and then they were sent off to go and write their own Haiku poem. This was reaped the entire week with the different poem being taught every day. Students really enjoyed and commented on the fact that they did enjoy this way of learning. 

What I disliked about the reading section was when they went into independent reading. The students are allowed to go and swap books when ever they like. They are also allowed to move into the library and pick any book. I'm not 100% sure of what sections in the school is for which students but possible the teacher should be allocating certain books to the students to avoid the story of “this book is too hard” or the comment of “I've read this book”. if the teacher is tracking what the student is reading this will help the teacher communicate with the student and the book better and also keeps track of the children's text. I'm not saying that students shouldn't be allowed to pick their own books, Yes they should be allowed to choose their own books but within their reading limits. 

There wasn't anything I disliked about the students writing. They were given lots of opportunities to write and explore their writing. Possibly a bit more assessment should be done to see what their errors are and re teach something that is a common error. The students in this class were not good at proof reading and editing their work. This is something that should be drilled into the students that checking their work is very important. 

Some books that the students were reading was: 

Heaps of Roald Dahl

Pony club and my Pony 

Fact books 

Dairy of a Wimpy kid 

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PROMPT 3

This is student X’s writing from a placement that I did. At the time students were asked to write a free verse poem. There are a few pointers for student X to work on. 

Word choice is something that needs to be worked on for this student. The words he has chosen are good and explain the topic but are very basic. For a grade 4, these texts should be exposing more advanced words. Black, smart and fast are all words that have potential to be stronger within a text. 

Within the text, it is clear to see that the student needs more work with conventions. He uses capital letters and commas but they are not always in the correct place. The student seems to know what the punctuation marks are but it's not clear that he understands what they are used for and where to put them. The layout of the text is poor. This student almost needs to almost slow down in their work. You can see from the writing that he is rushing his work. The work is messy and there is a change constantly in his sizing of the words and where he places them. This student is struggling to understand that within a poem if the word is part of a sentence it shouldn't stand alone. 

After the student has shown us his work we explained and went over what paragraphs are and how important they are in a text. This is a common error that is made in his text. He was able to go away with the text and come back having added the lines in for the paragraphs and he then understood where they need to go. 

This poem isn't bad and is very descriptive but when it comes to publishing this poem and writer needs some reminders and possible re-teaching of conventions and word choice.

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Prompt 2

At the beginning of this year, I was lucky enough to make a few posters on my placement round 1. The class I was with makes anchor charts together and they go up on the wall. So instead of having these printed out ones that are already on the wall and no one reads, they are made together as a class and put up together. 

The poster that stood out for me was the poster that I made regarding how to write a persuasive piece of writing and we spoke about hook words and sentences. We found as teachers that students really struggled to write the start of their work. So these hooks that we made together went on a huge poster in the classroom and students could use them in their writing. 

Below is a poster I made regarding Intering Texts. Reason for choosing that topic is because I didn't really understand what it meant to Infer therefore making my own understanding in a poster will hopefully help students too. 

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Prompt One

James and the Gaint Peach by Roald Dahl was that inspirational text for me. First, to be fairly honest I remember watching the movie at a friends house and watching it on one of those old big black tapes and a tiny TV. I fell in love with the story line and was always an aminal lover so this was a gorgeous film. But did I know that the film was not the best but the actual book was even better?

Sitting in my grade 3 classroom with Mrs Mabin and she read this book to us. I was so excited having watched the film but almost disappointed that I knew the story line. It was a shock to me that the book told another (but similar) story of its own. I'm sure we have all read the book of that movie and just found the book so much better? 

This story allowed me to fall in love with Roald Dahl. I thought I would be clever and see what would happen if I reversed the roles and read Charlie and the Chocolate factory first and then watch the movie... I hated the movie. Turned it off and much preferred the story line and fun words of the book!