Question 1: Teaching using the GRRM model

Question 1

What does GRRM stand for?

Answer 1

Gradual Release of Responsibility Model

Question 2

Who created the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model and in what year?

Answer 2

Pearson and Gallagher in 1983

Question 3

What are the 4 stages of the GRRM?

Answer 3

Modelled “I do, you watch”, shared “I do, you help”, guided “You do, I help”, independent “You do, I watch”

Question 4

What are the two extra stages of the GRRM?

Answer 4

Familiarising - Students are immersed in or exposed to multiple examples of the selected text forms
Analysing - students analyse the organisation of the text and form and construct their own rules for creating this type of text

Question 5

What happens in the modelling stage of the GRRM?

Answer 5

• Think alouds
• Represent the language
• Thinking and organising strategies
  Cameron & Dempsey (2016)

Question 6

What happens in the shared stage of the GRRM?

Answer 6

• Scaffold students partial responses into complete ideas
• Model thinking and organisation
• Questions, comments and statements to initiate responses from students
  Cameron & Dempsey (2016)

Question 7

What happens in the guided stage of the GRRM?

Answer 7

• Teacher provide task oriented feedback
• Prompts
• Teacher observing and noticing how students are engaging with the criteria
  Cameron & Dempsey (2016)

Question 8

What happens in the independent stage of the GRRM?

Answer 8

• Students independently apply their learning to individual or group task
• Any feedback in this phase must place responsibility on the student to improve and correct their work
• Roving, listening in and supporting students to extend their ideas
  Cameron & Dempsey, 2016

Question 9

What is SCSA (2014)’s definition of a text?

Answer 9

Text - A means for communication. Their forms and conventions have developed to help us communicate effectively with a variety of audiences for a range of purposes. Texts can be written, spoken or multimodal and in print or digital/online forms.

Question 10

What is the Peel Language Development School (2021)’s definition of an oral text?

Answer 10

• Is a connected stretch of language that is usually longer than a sentence.
• Includes:
  ○ Conversation (Dialogue)
  ○ Nine types of Oral Text Types (Monologues)

Question 11

What is the purpose of an informative report? (Peel Language Development School, 2021)

Answer 11

To classify and/or describe

Question 12

What is the text structure of an information report? (Peel Language Development School, 2021)

Answer 12

General statement or classification
Description
Conclusion

Question 13

What are the language features of an information report? (Peel Language Development School, 2021)

Answer 13

Technical language
Simple present tense
Generalised terms

Question 14

What is the purpose of a narrative? (Peel Language Development School, 2021)

Answer 14

Entertain, amuse or instruct readers

Question 15

What is the text structure of a narrative? (Peel Language Development School, 2021

Answer 15

Orientation
Complication
Evaluation
Resolution

Question 16

What are the language features of a narrative? (Peel Language Development School, 2021)

Answer 16

Usually specific participants
Time words to connect events
Action words
Noun groups
Adjectives

Question 17

What does a child with oral text difficulty ‘look’ like? (Peel Language Development School, 2021)

Answer 17

• Difficulty understanding spoken or written stories / narratives
• When producing spoken or written narratives
  § Use short, simple sentences
  § Poor orientation given to the listener (i.e.: setting, characters, events)
  § Little elaboration of story events and characters’ actions o Difficulty sequencing ideas
  § Provides details that are unrelated to the story
  § Omits details that are important to the story
• Difficulty extracting new information / ideas / concepts from written texts
• Poor retell (of personal events, films and books)

Question 18

Give some activities for teaching oral texts (Peel Language Development School, 2021)

Answer 18

• Task explanations
• Puppets/finger puppets
• News telling
• Words at a time (each child adds one word)