Literacy based inquiry alison davis

Literacy based inquiry

Planning your inquiry

Vision Education

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Teaching as Inquiry

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What is the curriculum and pedagogical focus of your inquiry

• Reading??? • What do skills, knowledge, strategies do “good”

readers know, think, select and use • Decoding – phonemic awareness, phonics,

orthographical and morphological • Vocabulary – contextual and morphological • Fluency – repeated reading • Comprehending strategies • MAINTENANCE of past taught skills and strategies • Student voice- Student agency

What is the curriculum and pedagogical focus of your inquiry?

• Writing???

• Preparing to write?

• Skills for accuracy and fluency?

• Range of teaching approaches

• Linking skill instruction to revising and evaluation processes

• Authentic purposes

• Mini lesson

• Student voice – Student agency

Making explicit what the strategy is and why using the strategy is important

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We are learning to connect to our prior knowledge of the theme or topic

We will be successful when we can

Think about what we know before we begin reading

List and talk with our partner what we know before we begin reading

Make connections between what we know and what we read to help us understand new information

Ask ourselves “ how do the ideas I am reading link to what I already know”

Talk with our partner about the new information we are learning from reading and making connections


Other Prior knowledge activities

• KWL and variations on this

• Problem and question prompts

• Time line agree-disagree

• Vocabulary activities

• 142-148 Teaching Reading Comprehension

• Chapter 3 Building Comprehension strategies

• Strategies for comprehension: Informational text example


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Encouraging discussion and talk aloud

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Inference – self monitoring learning


Example : Inference


Develop a group chart on how to use a strategy

Building Comprehension Strategies Davis 2011

Knowing a word


• Words are known incrementally –not a matter of degrees – word learning takes place in steps - never seen it before

– heard it but don’t know what it means

– recognise in context as having something to do with….

- understands correct and incorrect use of the word

- Knows and uses the word in range of contexts/situations

A learners knowledge of a word CAN grow! There are four levels of knowing Dale and O'Rourke, 1986 Level 1: I’ve never seen or heard the word before Level 2: I’ve seen or heard it but I don’t know what it means Level 3: I recognise it in context. I can tell you what it is related to. Level 4: I know the word well

Repeated reading • Integrate strategies within partner repeated

reading Example • Asking and answering questions • Question grids • Literal, inferential, evaluative, analytical questions • Developing quiz questions for other group pairs

• Also consider • Timelines • Genre structures – what would the author have

planned?


Writing that develops metacognition

• Learning to write is a thinking process and therefore an awareness of what you are doing is an essential part of the process

• A joint focus on knowing how to write as well as knowing what to write

• Metacognitive writing refers to the capacity of writers to be self-reflective, not just to think and know, but to think about their thinking and knowing

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Preparing to write - planning

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Effective Writing Instruction Davis 2013 chpt 5


Using an exemplar

• What did you learn about vocab?

• What did you learn about structure?

• What did you learn through use of visuals?

• What did you learn through layout and font?

• What did you learn ABOUT layout and font?

• Rate 1-4 and why

• What did you learn about “GOOD” writing?


Teaching approaches for writing instruction Modeled writing Shared writing Guided writing Collaborative writing Independent writing Paired writing / peer writing – includes writing

clubs, group projects On line writing Innovations on text Language experience Mini lessons

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Peer revision

• Prompt cards for revising in groups


Revising text example 4


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Revising text example 4


Effective Writing Instruction Davis 2013 chapt 7

Peer revision

• Prompt cards for revising in groups


Explicit instruction eg