We are developing young writers who have something to say. We need to be the trigger for that. What do they need?
- Lower level students exposed to learning conversations
- Create a partnership with students - Expert, co-learner and learner
- Positioning - Russell Bishop
- Allow them to tell their stories
- Lesson and purpose needs to be authentic - do not teach skills in isolated ways
- Can have a wide learning focus, allow the children to discover the learning (Metaphor of a gift, allow them to find the surprise)
- Ask the students "What do you think we were learning today?"
- Use of imitating, taking sentences/structure from a text and try it on for size - Jeff Anderson
- Can have different criteria for different lessons that come under one overarching criteria - for example begin a sentence with although
- Allow them to choose a skill and come in at their own level
- Encourage meaningful feedback - Model this for the students
- Model and scaffold so that students are able to be more independent and are able to have conversations between themselves. Make the students teacher, student, student, teacher, student, student, student rather than just back and forth between a student and the teacher.
- Rather than WALT write similes - look at why does this simile work? Why is it effective here?
- Ensure that our feedback is specific so that all students have the opportunity to learn from what you are saying - John Hatty
- Cater for diverse needs - don't hold back your higher learners while you scaffold your lowers, however it is important that they are all a part of the initial learning conversation
- Make all students accountable
- Deliberate acts of teaching - Effective Literacy Practice
- Writing for purpose
Book: Revision Decisions - Talking through sentences and beyond - Dean Anderson
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