Week 4 (instructional literacy practices)

Question 1

What are the 4 steps of the teaching and learning cycle?

Answer 1

• Plan
• Teach
• Assess
• Evaluate
  (including ongoing reflection)

Question 2

What are the 6 T’s of good literacy teaching? (Richard Allington)

Answer 2

The 6 T’s are:

• Talk (time for meaningful and authentic talk)
• Tasks (that are engaging, challenging, collaborative and authentic)
• Teach (explicit teaching of the strategies and skills required)
• Test (both formative and summative to inform future teaching and to report)
• Texts (quality and varied texts)
• Time (time on continuous texts for R and W, giving time to finish tasks).

Question 3

What are some important ideas to instil when students are reading and writing texts to entertain?

Answer 3

• Meaningful creation of text (for a purpose)
• Understanding the role of both the writer and the reader/audience.
  When reading - meaning making, thinking critically and making connections to self/texts/world.
  When writing - conveying a meaning, sharing a point of view, controlling language features, acknowledging the intended audience.

Question 4

What 3 things are we aiming to teach about texts to entertain? And what are these being taught through?

Answer 4

The focus is:
1- composition of texts
2- process of writing
3- presentation of texts
This is taught through:
- whole texts (looking at the purpose, structure, cohesion and sequence)
- sentences and words (syntax, grammar, vocabulary choices, spelling and punctuation).

Question 5

What are 3 examples of narrative hooks?

Answer 5

• iceberg
• in media res (middle of action)
• foreshadowing