Sunday, 20 March 2016

WLA Professional Development Workshops 17 March 2016

Born to Read - Rob Southam


  • Reading to students is extremely important
  • Find a series to hook them in - it doesn't matter what the series as it will lead to further reading in the future
  • Children should be in charge of their reading - let them choose
  • Find a book that they love to read
Top 10 Global trends right now for books:
  1. Diversity themes - check out cool nukes by Des Hunt
  2. Science fiction, Fantasy and Adventure
  3. intriguing non fiction and sophisticated colouring books
  4. novels with cartoons
  5. Kid lit on screen
  6. War themes
  7. Humor is huge
  8. fun early readers format
  9. Graphic Novels - Gorillas in our Midst
  10. Pop Fiction
Lynden Cook - Writing
Learning pit - James Nottingham
Growth Mindset

Student Agency
Teacher role is the provoker and inspirer

Teachers role is also to explicit teaching 
Students taking this to independence

Sequence  - connect to students interest
  • I have noticed . . . . . . 
  • Activivate prior knowledge - What do you know about . . . . 
  • Connect ideas What do you know?  What does that mean?  How do you know that?  Do you think that?
  • Did you know - Grow vocab, did you know facts
  • Introduce the artifact/motivation (video etc)
  • Planning talk - This reminds me of, I could explain how
  • Writing cycle process
I want my writing to . . . . . (genre)

Explicit teaching
5/7 learners over four days
  • Discover
  • Compare/contrast start to form a success criteria in student language
  • Collaborate with a partner
  • Practice
check in with the students the following week to see if they are including the skills taught.

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