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ECL310 Prompt 8 2018

Research a #hashtag Your task for this prompt is to do a search, on TUMBLR, of #picturebooks. Type in #picturebooks to the search panel, and browse the numerous TUMBLR posts that are shown. We want you to find something and share!. You may find the details of a new picture book being released, you may find a discussion or information regarding an obscure, or famous picture book. If you see an interesting hashtag in one of the posts you may like to follow that. We ask you to reflect and report back on what you have found interesting when you have research #picturebooks. You may choose to follow some TUMBLR sites and recommend these to others. Remember to hashtag #ecl310deakin and #picturebooks

Prompt  7 2018

I would like you all to have a look at the fantastic teacher materials on this website.

For this weeks reflection, I would like you to browse the many grade 5 and 6 videos and materials available. CLICK into Resources, check the grade 5 and 6 boxes as well as the ENGLISH box.

You may or may not be able to match these resources to your particular AT2 book, either way, it is worthwhile knowing that the ABC always provide teachers with classroom worthy materials.

Your task is to critique one of the 5 / 6 English resources and critique it as if you are reporting back to fellow teachers in a planning meeting or a staff meeting. This may be a video or audio record, handwritten notes, formal notes, a mind-map or a similar cognitive organiser - be creative and we will be looking forward to hearing what you have to say!

good luck

PROMPT 6 2018

THE PHONICS DEBATE

The link above contains a video recording of a phonics debate provided here through the Australian College of Educators.

Your task is to watch and listen to some of this recorded debate.

You begin by forwarding the video to the 20-minute mark. Beginning around the twenty-minute mark you will see one speaker for the teaching of phonics, followed by a speaker who questions the positioning of phonics in the teaching of reading. The two speakers run from the twenty-minute mark until the 37 and a half minute mark.

Watch both speakers and take notes. After watching from the 20.00 to the 37.30 minutes mark, and having taken your notes, we ask you to complete a RAN chart to help organize your thinking. It is probably easier of you make your own RAN chart.

You may well be asked about Phonics at a job interview so it is worth starting to know more about this topic, now!

PROMPT 5 ECL310 2018

I hope that you have enjoyed placement and are back on board ready to work through until the end of the trimester.

In seminars this week we have looked at Before Reading, Frontloading, and Predicting. In the week 6 seminar Powerpoint, there are excellent activities based around Way Home by Libby Hathorn. I would encourage you to read the prediction and questioning strategies demonstrated in those slides, to help you to come up with 5 questions that you would ask grade 6 children, directly addressing the front cover of DUST. You can use ideas that were explored in the week 6 seminar.

Your challenge is to present these five questions in a multi-modal format, we encourage you to be creative here, how can you ask these questions in an engaging manner?

Good Luck

PLACEMENT REFLECTION

Now it is time to reflect on placement and the literacy happening in the room you were in.

If you were not on placement recently you must write about a good, and not so good, literacy experience you have had in a classroom.

Those who were on placement have the same task, tell us what you liked and what you did not like when you were on placement and try and discuss reading and writing at least once.

It would be wonderful if you could include an image of something you saw during placement, but we understand that many of you will be reading this after placement, see how you go. A photo of the school would also be very interesting to your assessor, PLEASE DO NOT include the images of children and their faces.

And it would also be great for you to share what the kids were reading, what are the popular classroom novels in our schools.

From all of us, we do hope you had a rewarding and challenging round and hope you are more determined than ever before to complete your studies and become a great teacher.

Regards from the ECL310 team!

PROMPT 3 2018

This week we would like you to reflect on the current state of handwriting in schools today. It might be asked of you in a in a job interview; ‘will you teach handwriting in your classroom?’ Or, ‘how often will you practice handwriting with your students?’

Have you heard teachers on placement discussing handwriting, are you aware of parent opinions, do you have you strong thoughts of your own? We would to read your thoughts, actually we would like to read your handwritten thoughts. That’s right, please submit this reflection, in your own handwriting.

PROMPT 2 2018 ecl310

POSTERS 

Thank you to all of you who have posted or replied to the week one prompt. As usual many of you shared experiences with Enid Blyton books, and this is a great memory for me as I read the Magic Faraway series to my girls when they were tots.

This week we would like you to make a poster that could be used in a classroom. It should be literacy related, and could be similar to something you have seen in a classroom. It should reflect something in literacy that you think is important in a classroom you will one day teach in.

Another thing you could do is take a photo of an existing classroom display, one that is teacher-made, as in handmade, and share that with us!

First you need to look at the cover and back page of Thai-Riffic, and read the first three pages, which are all include here.

Your task is to use Bloom’s Taxonomy above, and create questions from the prompts on the left of the image, here they are.

CREATE - ‘How could we add to, improve, design, solve...? 

EVALUATING - What do you think about....? what are you assessing?

ANALYSING - What is the evidence for?

APPLYING - What other examples are there?

COMPREHENDING - What do we mean by .....,  explain.

KNOWLEDGE AND REMEMBERING - Who? What? How? Why? When?

Prompt 6

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I would like you all to have a look at the fantastic teacher materials on this website.

For this weeks reflection, I would like you take a look at one of the many grade 5 and 6 videos. You can check the grade 5 and 6 boxes, as well as the video box, down the left hand side.

After watching one of these indigenous related videos, describe how you might use this particular video in the front loading of a literature unit based on an Australian and Torres Strait Islander book. You may choose any of the video’s, and you don’t have to match it to a particular book. For this purpose you don’t need to have a specific book, but if you do know one, then that would  be great,

good luck

The ECL310 team

PROMPT 5

Welcome back to those that have been on placement, and to everyone else. This weeks seminar involves the powerful children’s picture book Dust. First, I would like you to write a sentence using every word in the Wordle attached to this post. Many of you have already done this in seminars, you can just re-use the possible sentence you have already written, or add in a new one. The entire book is available to be read, in the week 6 seminar file on Cloud.

Second,  I would like you to re-write the sentence for the attached image of the food being placed in the rubbish bin. Just one sentence, but it can be a challenge as you already know what the sentence is!

Both of these great front-loading activities were devised by Marsha Dickins and are two of several that were modeled in the seminars. Finally, for a third reflection, can you briefly describe another short ten-to-twenty minute front-loading lesson you may do, before the book is read.

Good luck!

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When I was in grade three I remember my teacher reading to the class Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. We sat in silence absorbing every word, it was fantastic!. The teacher read Roald’s next book Charlie and The Glass Elevator as well and it was also a big favourite. Years later I was lucky enough to be teaching my own grade 3 and 4′s when the Harry Potter series came out. Once again a class sat in silence absorbing very word as this time I read the novel to the grade.

For your reflection this week we would enjoy discovering your memories of being read to. Preferably this would come from your own classroom experiences, otherwise, it can be a reflection on what a parent read to you, or if that doesn’t fit, you can share what you would like to read to a class when you have the chance.

All of the ECL310 team look forward to sharing in this,

be creative, make a video, a Wordle, a sound recording, a cloze activity, anything you like!

And here is a youtube assisting us in promoting the importance of adults reading to ALL children!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBuT2wdYtpM

Good luck!