I wrote the following reflection while completing the Learning to Talk by Talking : A Developmental Approach to maximizing Language and Literacy Skills course.
Engage in theme-oriented activities. Start from familiar sources, such as:
Our current unit of inquiry is under the broad theme of Sharing the Planet with a central focus inquiring into how Living things need adapt to environments to thrive.
Writing, we are deconstructing, noticing and writing list articles in our year level for 4 weeks. Current piece students are working on is a list article on animals which they have been researching.
Found a new list article from Nat Geo on Amazing animals.
- children's prior acquired knowledge
- children's interests
Our current unit of inquiry is under the broad theme of Sharing the Planet with a central focus inquiring into how Living things need adapt to environments to thrive.
Writing, we are deconstructing, noticing and writing list articles in our year level for 4 weeks. Current piece students are working on is a list article on animals which they have been researching.
- physical features
- habitats
- locations
- dietary habits
- daily life and on
Found a new list article from Nat Geo on Amazing animals.
- One animal was about a great dane who ate nearly 22pairs of socks!
- Wow: Gell me what that means? What does the author want us to feel or think when we read?
