Week 14: Oral Communication Newstelling, Storytelling &Speaking and Listening in Groups and in Pairs

This week:

Storytelling and Newstelling (30) PLConversations (20) Whole Group Sharing (10) Questioning (10)

BREAK (10) Questioning and Book Club (30) Integrated Literacy Assignment

(30)

RECOUNT Plan

3Google “Recount”

Telling Narratives, Telling Stories

In groups, we will work on:

Primary: Modelled Stories

Junior: Story reconstruction

Please read instructions in full before you start.

How might we assess students’ storytelling?

Assessment of Oral Communication

What to assess:

★ telling of personal anecdote

★ recounting of a story

★ retelling of a text

★ predictions

★ reciting poems

★ asking of questions

★ rephrasing of utterances

★ sense of audience

★ range of vocabulary related to a topic

★ body language use

★ expressiveness

Professional Learning Conversations

Discuss the article in your group for 15-20 minutes. Be prepared to share one important idea with the larger group. One member of your group can write this on the whiteboard.

Questioning for Understanding and Critical Thinking

Taxonomy of Questioning Anchor Chart

Questions to Promote Critical Literacy

Nodelman’s Four Questions:1. What did you like?2. What did you not like?3. What confused you? What questions do

you have?4. What patterns did you notice?

Children’s Literature & Questioning

In your book club group, discuss the book and your responses to 4 questions (15 min)

What kinds of questions (Nodelmans + the 2 sheets) would work for your text. What do the questions allow you to do? (5-10min)

BREAK

Integrated Literacy Assignment – Key areas for revision

• Collaboration & consultation• Flow of activities• Meaningful activities• Activities connected to text• Assessment, activity, and

expectations aligned • Consistency amongst

lessons/activities format

Integrated Literacy Assignment

Expectations

Assessment

Activity

Anecdotal Records/Observations: Practicality? Manageable Number? Checklist ?

Integrated Literacy AssignmentLet’s work on this activity together1. What do we want the students to be able to

do? (expectations)2. What kind of activity will allow us to do that?

(content + process)3. How can students be assessed? (formative

and/or summative)

REMEMBER, ON THE ABOUT ASSIGNMENTS TAB, UNDER INTEGRATED LITERACY ASSIGNMENT, THERE ARE EXAMPLES OF THE WHOLE ASSIGNMENT AND EXEMPLARS OF THE AMOUNT OF DETAIL NEEDED.

Next week:

○ Reading – Guccione OR Horsey & Malloch – you must choose in advance

○ Finish novel○ Start revisions of Integrated

Literacy Assignment