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Journal Task six goes a little something like this: Observe the reading context of the classroom, eg:
copy the timetable and note literacy routines and literacy/language block sessions describe organisation of reading materials and groups
reflect on the purpose/implications of this organisation
A typical week in Jenny’s [...]
Reading Interview:
N.A 15/5/07 Female
1. Do you like to read?
*nods head* yes.
2. Where do you read?
On the couch at home.
3. What do you read?
Fairytale Books
4. Do you read to…
a) learn Yes
b) for fun
c) because I have to
d) no answer
5. Which of these would you prefer to read?
a) The Rainbow Fish
b) The Forest Yes
Why?
Because I like [...]
Here’s entry four’s task: Select a text suitable for using with primary-aged children. Use the Four Resources model to identify some teaching activities (dot point form)
My table demonstrating this is linked here. And the book I used was The Rainbow Fish.
Code Breaker
Teachers are inveterate collectors. They collect cotton reels, cardboard cylinders, and egg cartons. They queue up at conferences to collect posters, pamphlets, charts, and other publishers’ freebies.
It’s important to keep in mind that teachers also collect more substantial things. While they might have a strong interest in physical paraphernalia with which to decorate their rooms, [...]
Angus,L., Snyder, I., Sutherland-Smith, W. (2002) Building Equitable Literate Futures: home and school computer mediated literacy practices and disadvantage, Carfax Publishing, Monash University: Australia
Bolter, J.D. (1991). Writing space: The computer, hypertext and the history of writing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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Why do we need to talk about literacies in new ways? What are the implications for your classroom?
Literacy, and texts more specifically are changing. There are so many more texts being ‘read‘. Media (visual, audio, film, TV, music, internet), written texts and human interactions. In Len Unsworth’s book Teaching Multiliteracies (2001) he says [...]
What do you already know about reading?
A text is not just a book. A text is anything that can be ‘read’.
Read doesn’t just mean sitting down and looking at the words in a book and interpreting them, ’read’ means making meaning and interpreting something.
When someone reads a text they bring to it their prior knowledge, specific discourses [...]
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