Term 2
Reflecting On My 'Where To From Here' From Term 1 2017
As an inquiry into developing the skills of Year 3 writers through motivation, purpose and a love of literacy, my previous post outlined my 'Where to from Heres' after Term 1 of 2017. My next steps focused on the development and use of interesting vocabulary across genre, motivation and a purpose for writing, and explicitly teaching the writing process. I kept this as a focus throughout Term 2 and the outcome of this is shown below.
Inspiration: Students reading a few books on sustainable energy, sparked their interest and wonderings about the hole in the ozone layer. I found a beautiful story on the literacy shed about wind farms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nd9OuX7Bd4
Plan, Draft and Edit:
As we had been focusing on descriptive writing, the students collaboratively created the text, using google slides, to describe each page of the story. The story of course had to make sense, therefore the editing process taught them a lot about using the same tense and sequencing.
Sharing:
This is their version of the story
The Windmill Farmer
Taking Their Learning Further
I saw The Future Transport Competition by NZ Transport Agency and New Zealand Government and thought it would tie in nicely, and take their learning further.
Plan, Draft and Edit:
As we had been focusing on descriptive writing, the students collaboratively created the text, using google slides, to describe each page of the story. The story of course had to make sense, therefore the editing process taught them a lot about using the same tense and sequencing.
Sharing:
This is their version of the story
The Windmill Farmer
Taking Their Learning Further
I saw The Future Transport Competition by NZ Transport Agency and New Zealand Government and thought it would tie in nicely, and take their learning further.
They investigated past and present transport, discovered problems they wanted to fix e.g. petrol cars damaging our ozone layer, too many traffic jams and crashes on our roads. They asked questions and investigated the answers... I created a blendspace for resources they could easily access.
They took their learning journeys from there. They created designs and wrote about them, used explain everything to make the animated videos and imovie to create the video.
We made a google site to combine all their ideas together and share them with the world.
Loads of fun. They are going to be gutted if they don't win lol.
Where to from here...
1) Building up each idea with supporting details.
2) Improvement of spelling and handwriting without detracting from the main focus of developing ideas, vocabulary and structure.
Where to from here...
1) Building up each idea with supporting details.
2) Improvement of spelling and handwriting without detracting from the main focus of developing ideas, vocabulary and structure.
