Ryan Heights Primary School Established: Mackenzie Road, Kellyville NSW RHPS

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS School Background with LBOTE students LBOTE students born in Australia Non-LBOTE 82% 18% H

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Focus Group Stage 1: Years EAL (English as an additional language) Children backgrounds: Punjabi, Sinhalese, Afrikaans, Cantonese etc. Issue: Not understanding English H

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS What Research Tells Us About These Students ESL students ‘learn’ to participate in marginalised ways (Dooley, 2008) Ways to overcome it are:- E Collaboration Thinking timeTechnology Reading and writing should be taught together

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS What Research Tells Us About These Students ICT can be used in two ways in your classroom: 1.An aid for student understanding 2.As a method for differentiating the activities E

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS What Research Tells Us About These Students Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 E

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Literacy Strategies David Rose Teaching Reading and Writing to Aboriginal Children In Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Education E

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Literacy Strategies Step 1: Step 2: E Image on IWB ThinkPairShare

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS It’s All About Activating Prior Knowledge Step 3 Continue lesson by discussion the images place Descriptive words Emotions Content picture H Build up students knowledge base General knowledge for whole class Vocabulary

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS It’s All About Activating Prior Knowledge Step 4 Map the children's’ discussions H

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Language Acquisition Little Explorers Picture Library – Enchanted Learning / Dictionary H

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Language Acquisition Spelling City H

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Example Step 5 Introduce book by – Predict meaning throughout text; – Begin at the cover page Oral Writing Reading literacy Support procedural language acquisition (Dooley, 2008) H

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Forming Groups Research tell us, when forming groups there is benefit in keeping students of similar languages together:- Promotes greater social interaction Fosters a sense of identity (Dooley 2008) Helps break the social power relations at play amongst monolingual English speakers and Preserves a positive perspective on ELL first language (Diaz & Harvey, 2007) H

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Authentic Task Step 6 Provide an authentic task Collaboration Research and Presentation Design a wiki using ‘wiki spaces classroom’ Creative thinking Creative thinking, Project management, Collaborative work and Autonomous learning E

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Technology Activities can be differentiated through technology Science Mathematics Arts Civics and Citizenship English History Languages Geography E

Courtesy Cooperation RHPS Technology Apps can be used as a motivator for speech Assist the student to build their knowledge and understanding of English Work on their pronunciation and listening, reading and writing. PCS BingoPCS Scramble

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Courtesy Cooperation RHPS References Cooper, D. & Kiger, N.D. (2003). Literacy: Helping Children Construct Meaning. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Cope, B., and Kalantzis, M. (2000) (The New London Group) A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies. In Cope, B., and Kalantzis, M. Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the design of futures. Long : Routledge Diaz, C., & Harvey, N. (2007). Other Words, other worlds: Bilingual identities and literacy. In Makin L., Diaz, C.J., Mc Lachlin C. Literacies in Childhood Changing Views, changing practice. Marrickville, NSW: Elsevier Dooley, K. (2008). Multiliteracies and pedagogies of New Learning for Students of English as an additional language. In Healy, A., Multiliteries and Diversity in Education. Oxford: Oxford University press (Chapter 5) Killen, R. (2001). Programming and assessment for quality teaching and learning. South Melbourne, Victoria: Cengage Learning Australia Rose, D. (2008). Teaching Reading and Writing to Aboriginal Children. In N. Harrison (2008). Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Education. Sydney: Oxford University Press (Chapter 4)