Staff Meeting - Coaching - Literacy & Who We Are - Tuesday 13th February 2018

Complete survey document - Send to Anne

- The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other - Working collaboratively - This is something that we are aiming to do at Berkley. 
- Revisit at the end of the year - Have we increased the level of collaboration across the school??

LITERACY POB

Te Aroha Image of a Literate Berkley Graduate

Could you carry out this activity with your students?

REFLECTION:

- How many entries?

- Evidence of a variety of opportunities/purposes?

- Teacher presence?

WHO WE ARE

Planning based on:

- Curriculum

- Context

- Student strengths and needs

Possible model to use with our students

I am from by Cath Runga

WALT: create a sense of who we are through our writing. (Have a rich learning focus)

Think time:

- What is your initial response to this poem? - Train students to have a response to this question (What does it mean to have a response to this text?)

Possible Activities

- Begin this as a guided group reading session - unpack meaning

- Could use visualisation - Draw your home

- Inferencing

- What was the author trying to convey to the reader? - Analysing and synthesising

Have a clear purpose, audience and form each time you write.

Model these for your students before they start writing.

Form success criteria as a class - use the success criteria to hone in on 

Unpacking the text - this becomes the success criteria

- Begin each verse with 'I am from'

First verse

- Where - Outside

- Zooms in

- Adjectives followed by noun

- Connectors - and & with

Second verse

- Where - specific room of the house

- descriptions and then listing sentence

Third verse

- Activities/what they do

Fourth verse

- A phrase/saying from your parents/family

Fifth verse

- Describing the people in your family/ who are important to you

My Writing:

I am from

Light-filled houses with large back yards

Winding driveways and endless carparking

Steep banks with 

I am from

Shelves lined with books

Cherokee Daughter - Possible text for higher level learners

This type of writing could be a unique way to introduce ourselves  as teachers to families at the beginning of the year