This book is guiding and directing our learning pathway for this Accelerating Literacy challenge.
Gail Loane says every child has something to say about a whole lot of things.
We as teachers need to find out what it is they have to say and offer them opportunities to say it!
One thing I have decided during the past 8 weeks is that we must provide the TIME for ORAL Language, we must make the connection from ORAL to WRITING explicit, and we must link WRITING to READING. One can simply not occur without the other.
An AHA! Moment for me was at the ALL course in Wellington when Dr Barbara Watson said we as educators have timetabled Literacy into oral language, writing, reading and in doing so we have stopped student learners seeing the connections.
She said make your daily timetable into a LITERACY block and integrate all 3 disciplines into this time.
This made sense to me!
Gail Loane reminded me in this brilliant resource that children can write about issues close to their lives and hearts.
She encouraged me to start by talking to students to prompt and recall common life experiences.
She stated that shared stories, wonderings, observations, opinions and responses need to be at the heart of our writing programmes.
This has directed our writing and my teaching...
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