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Engage in Theme-Oriented Activities with Pre-K to 4th Graders

16/2/2017

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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:
  1. children's prior acquired knowledge
  2. children's interests
What are some of the powerful topics/curricula you implemented in your classroom or discussed with your child? How did you organize the discussion?
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
Group of students who need support to transfer their research notes into interesting sentences to make they list articles engaging for their readers.

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?
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