"Literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills students need to access, understand, analyse and evaluate information, make meaning, express thoughts and emotions, present ideas and opinions, interact with others and participate in activities at school and in their lives beyond school." - Australian Curriculum
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How do we develop students' deep understanding of what they are reading? Granville East Public School, August 2011
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POP
How well are we developing our students’ skills in learning to write and writing to learn? What impact is the modeling having on students’ writing? How well are students monitoring and evaluating their learning in writing? Are they improving their writing based on feedback? Are they critically reflecting on the learning process? Granville East Public School, October 2016
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- Are we catering for the oral language needs of our students? Sefton Infants, 2012
- What scaffolding practices are being used in classrooms to support students language learning? Granville PS, 2014
- How well are we engineering classrooms where students communicate with others during the learning process, both orally and in writing, and using a variety of media to enrich learning? Burwood PS , 2015
Why we do it?WHY #1 ORAL LANGUAGE: Distinguished educator, Carmel Crevola, explains why oral language is so important for our students.
Why #4 READING. A 2020 review of evidence about the effects of systematic phonics finds that "there is little or no evidence that this approach is more effective than the alternative methods used in schools, including whole language". Click here to download the report
Why #5 READING: An excellent article detailing what research tells us about how to ensure students develop reading comprehension.
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How we do itTALK MOVES
How #1 Short video created by the Granville East IR team illustrates some of the talk moves in dialogic talk
HOW #3: A colourful poster that can be used by teachers or students to establish talk moves
How #3: This series of cards prepared by Sefton Infants School can be used to scaffold talk moves for students and teachers. Click here to download: Deepening; Sustaining; Challenging
How #4 A Powerpoint created by Sharna Labbe from Sefton Infants highlights teaching strategies essential for comprehension
How #6: Scaffolding. This fabulous poster by the Burwood PS team explains scaffolding with examples of things you can do. Click here to download
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