Literacy Cluster Meeting # 2

Today’s Focus

• To share ideas and resources

• To explore early literacy acquisition -progression of skills and strategies -opportunities that texts provide -seen and unseen texts -running records as a formative tool

• E-learning

Share one, get one

• What has happened in your school towards implementing National Standards since the last session?

• Resources/ideas to share

Theory that underpins literacy learning

• Read and discuss the statements

• As a group write a summary statement

Literacy Learning Progressions

• Order the statements from Magenta to Gold

• Highlight key words

Literacy Learning Progressions

• In ‘colour wheel’ groups develop statements in ‘kid speak’

• What opportunities do these texts provide? Add statements in ‘kid speak’

Seen/unseen texts

• Discuss the statements

• When is a seen text appropriate?

• When is an unseen text appropriate?

Running Records

• Compare the two running records

• What can Child 1 and Child 2 do?

• What are the next teaching steps for Child 1 and Child 2 (refer to LLP)

Elearning activities to support literacy for juniors

Where to from here?