What are some of the things we are noticing:
-Fluency-Concertation
-Knowledge gap
-Writing like talk not crafted
-High demands texts.
We must remember that language is oral and print and within that sit the vocabulary. Just because students are exposed to language does not mean they will up take that language.
They need:
FOCUS and NOTICE
Put in the effort
Take part (participate) fully
Push myself to the edge
Dig deep for what I already know
Learn from others – notice and focus
I share – others gain from me
Think and talk; think and read
WONDERING and ASKING opens up possibilities to know
These conditions need to be normalised in the classroom and be part of everyday.
We must think, Where is the languaging of the learning in my inquiry?
We want students to extend their ideas beyond just one simple idea. We want them to add detail and this is only done through practice. When students have more pair talk and shared talk, challenges and models of how to offer more language.
How can we make the environment more dialogic? How much sharing can I make happen in a day?
Jan suggested we need quantity of quality.
We should be thinking about the texts about the world that are current and interesting for the learners and how we can build language in a meaningful way.
One way Jan did was by using fluency to help build understanding. She did this by chucking the text by putting breaks between ideas.
There are so many quality texts out there the challenge is to do quality and quantity.
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