Walking Talking Texts

(c) (WTT) F.Murray. Acknowlegements: Yirrkala CEC, NT; Yarrabah School, Nth Qld; Wadeye CEC, NT; Murrupurtiyanuwu Catholic School, NT.

Walking

Talking

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Creating a Language Flooded classroom is an essential aspect of the WTT methodology.


Activity 1: Discover the Text

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Activity Three: Discuss the Text – further exploration of the semantics of the text.

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Activity Four: Visual record of role play

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Activity Five: Links to the experienced or ‘real’ world.


Exercise 6: Deconstructing the genre of the text

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Exercise Eight: develop

a list of words from the

text..

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Exercise Ten: Word study


Exercise 10. Word Study: Grapho-phonic patterns

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Activity 11: Group Negotiated Text of the original.

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Exercise 12: Thesaurus – vocabulary development

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Activity 13: Independent re-write of the text

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Exercise 14: Scrambled text - Sentence Level Practice


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Exercise 15:

Story Mapping


Exercise 16: Scrambled Text

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Exercise 17: Different Endings and Beginnings (Sentences)

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Exercise 18: Written Cloze


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Large Class Book made with language from the flood (after the unit was completed, as a means of recording the learning done by the class.).


Activity 21: Listening skills – learners like to ‘see’ themselves doing previous activities – it jogs their memory to re-live the experience – this one reminds them of the focus on prepositions.

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Activity 23: Visual Arts Integration


Activities 27 – 30: Integration of learning into the Learning Areas.

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Activity 35: New text based on the original


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Going on a classroom Print Walk: ‘Walking and Talking’

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Walking Talking Texts