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ECL310 Post 1

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Prompt 8

Looking through the hashtag I found two blogs I wanted to share

http://harpercollinschildrens.tumblr.com/

HarperCollins is a huge publisher, and there blog posts all sorts of things, like covers from new books you might be interested in, and some sale notifications if you wanted to pick up some more books for your classroom anytime soon

http://picturebookswaitingtohappen.tumblr.com/

this is the second blog I found. Their posts are all crazy cool and interesting pictures that are ‘picture books waiting to happen’. There is some great inspiration in here, and lots of pictures you could share with your students to help write some unique and interesting stories

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PROMPT #5 For looking at the cover of this book, I would firstly show a video like the one linked, so that students are in the right mind-frame and they can ask the right types of questions themselves without necessarily having them explicitly asked of them.

Another option could be incorporating gifs into a slide show presentation.

Therefore:

1 - What does the title mean to you, and why? 2 - What can you predict about the book based on the whole front page? 3 - What significance might the added sticker have? 4 - What can you tell me about the colours used? 5 - Who do you think the book is for? In which ways?

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Prompt 6 - The Phonics Debate

What I think I know: It provides a strong connection between spoken word, reading printed word and spelling using the sounds of words. Confirmed: It was confirmed that printed words - graphemes are linked to spoken word - phonemes when students are explicitly taught their realtionship. It provides the skills they need to decode what they see on the page, to make meaning - therefore, the skills to read. Meaning can’t come at first sight of a word because the English language is not inherently meaningful - until the known spoken word is matched to the printed word through a system to decode it.  Misconceptions: That a phonics program is a stand alone program for reading and the only way to learn to read a text and make meaning.  Those against phonics will argue that meaning is made before reading occurs and experience/opportunities to make meaning is what students need before successful reading. Although, regardless, there will always be a relationship between phoneme and grapheme that produces meaning.  New Learning  A new way to percieve it - Before phonemes are matched to graphemes: letters, words and grammer are just squiggles and lines, until they are systematically matched to the spoken word. They provide the code to the sound of the spoken English language. Wonderings I wonder why anyone would be against phonics, because I’ve seen it first hand and it literally empowers children with the skills to read, or atleast attempt to read and make meaning from text without constant guidance.  While I wonder why someone would feel students wouldn’t gain meaning from learning to decode the English language, afterall, the language is spoken first, so students need to associate their spoken language to the written code to derive meaning. 

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When searching through results for #picturesbooks I stumbled across this newly released book that looks spectacular! Posted by the writer themselves @imageblock. The cover art in itself is giving viewers an exciting preview into what this book could be about. I love dreams and talking to children about any wonderful dreams they may have had so this would definitely be a book I’d be interested in teaching students one day! I love having a #bookbank at my disposal for when I become a teacher, so lots of picture books in my cupboard full of wonderful tories I cant wait to share with my students one day! This one might definitely be amongst them!

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Welcome to the unit everyone

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Prompt 8

ECL310 Prompt

When I type in #picturebooks there were a lot of great suggestions of picture books to read that would provide educative value in the classroom. A text I found popular in the search was called ‘Cloud Country’ this text has amazing illustrations that create a sense of comfort and softness to the text. This text emphasizes the importance of illustrations and inspires imagination which would be a great text to introduce to the younger year levels but also extend to the middle year students where students would discover the great links between texts and imagery.

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ECL310 - Prompt 4

While on placement, I was in a year 5/6 classroom and it was a great opportunity to see both reading and writing in action. Both areas of literacy had time dedicated to them each day and were often double sessions (2x50 minutes). 

Writing: As a warm up each day, the teacher would either write up a paragraph on the board full of grammar and spelling errors that students had to correct, or students had to complete a page in their handwriting books. Throughout the 10 days, students were working on planning and writing scripts. These scripts were for “How to...” videos, which encouraged students to teach others about something they are good/passionate about. It was great to be able to work with the students throughout the discussion, planning, editing and filming stage of the task. It also presented opportunities for me to build relationships with each of the students as they discussed their ideas about the script with me. 

Reading: Throughout the 10 days, I was able to conducted guided reading sessions with every student and analyse their strengths and areas for development while reading. I was able to work with the students to develop learning goals that were appropriate for their level of reading. There were various books across the classroom that students were reading, all based in various interests. A group of girls were reading their way through the ‘Famous Five’ series and then a few were reading ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’. 

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PROMPT 4 2018

I was fortunate enough to do my placement at a special development school. Within the classroom there is two non-verbal students. By using touchchat app on an iPad with pictures that correspond with the selected reader the students that would normally just listen to a story can interact and contribute. For example, on the page pictured in the photo, the student can point to ‘I see a’ ‘dolphin’ ’purple pirate’ and a ‘seagull’. This gave a non-verbal student a voice and gave her an opportunity that most people take for granted. As the school, like many is well under funded. something I did not like was the limited levelled readers. Because like many public schools with limited funding, they had just a few levelled readers. Without any variety the students who needed to work on comprehension find it hard to match books that they can relate and bring their own experiences too.

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Post 3- Handwriting

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Prompt Two

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My time on placement was great, incredibly challenging but incredibly rewarding.

I was with grade 1′s and we started off every day with 1 hour of CAFE and 4 1h sessions in the week were dedicated to writing. The school has a whole-school approach when it comes to writing, so every student is working on the same text type at the same time, which currently is procedures. It was really great to see how integrated the writing text type was into their different curriculum areas. We had science classes each week that had them re-ordering and then following procedures. As a buddies task the grade 5′s had made procedures on how to do things in Word which they then worked through with our class. In class, the rest of the writing sessions were dedicated to creating their own procedures on how to make an art piece that the students would be putting on display for an open night coming up. I think the students responded really well to being able to see a procedure in action and putting their knowledge to work, rather than just learning what one is and then moving on.

Another thing I liked was during CAFE the session is split up into a Big book, silent reading groups, streamed activity groups. During the silent reading some students would be working on handwriting, others on grammar and word knowledge activities, and some on the iPad using epic (a reading app). I thought this was a great way to incorporate some more variance in the students learning and fit in some of the little pieces of learning that can be hard to mould a whole session around. At the front of the room, they had a big list that every time the class read a book it was written down. The students loved adding to the list and it gave them a sense of ownership and pride seeing how long the list had gotten over the year so far.

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Prompt Two

Whilst on teaching placement in a grade 3/4 class I was given the opportunity to create a Poetry unit. Part of this was creating a classroom display for students poems and I came across the idea of creating a Poet Tree Display. Below are a few examples of other peoples displays. When I get a chance I will try to find a photo of my own display I created with students. As we learned about each type of Poem students were able to read a variety of Poems aloud to the class and additionally write their own. They then chose which of their poems they would like to display on our Poet Tree.

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Guided reading in the classroom 

Using prediction and inference to build up clues on reading text in the classroom. 

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I remember when I was younger, I was not a big reader until I had discovered the Captain Underpants series. After discovering the series, my love for reading had expanded onto many different genres and my love fr reading in general had grown lots. I remember my friends and I would always talk to each other about the books and we would even act out some of the pages. Without Captain Underpants, the amount of reading that I had done as a child would not have even come close to what it is.

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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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