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Early career teacher induction Literacy middle
years Workshop 2
Literacy teaching and the four resources framework
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Outcomes Workshop 2

• understanding of a variety of appropriate
  resources and materials that engage studentsand
  support their learning
• understanding of the nature of the increasing
  technical and subject specific syllabus demands
  required of students in Stages 3 and 4

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Professional teaching standards NSW Institute of
teachers

• 6.2.3 Engage in professional development to
  extend and refine teaching and learning practices
• 6.2.8 Demonstrate knowledge of the application of
  relevant policy documents in schools
• 3.2.4 Select, develop and use a variety of
  appropriate resources and materials that engage
  students and support their learning.

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Middle years from learning to read to
reading to learn

• Increased emphasis on independent reading and
  research requires explicit teaching about
• reading for meaning
• using steps of the information process
• unpacking dense, technical language of expository
  textand reference books
• adjusting reading rate to purpose
• understanding and using graphic, written and
  visual text

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Middle years increase in subject- specific
literacy

• The language required by different subject areas
  is often specific to the subject.
• Consider how the word figure has different
  meanings in different subjects.
• Literacy is best taught explicitly within and
  alongside the teaching of content in the KLA.

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Middle years independent learning, study
organisational skills

• Adolescents may require explicit teaching and
  support about
• setting up and following a timetable for school
  or home use
• how to use the library, the internet, a reference
  book
• how to study for different subjects
• how to make notes

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Middle years moving towards more technical
writing

• All teachers of Years 5-9 students need to
  reflect high expectations about the quality and
  quantity of student writing.
• All subjects should provide opportunity for
  extended responses e.g. essay writing.
• Allow time in class for students to write at
  least one aspect of an extended response.
• Demonstrate how to add technicality.

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Research on adolescentsliteracy achievements
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National assessment program literacy and
numeracy (NAPLAN)

• In NAPLAN, literacy includes
• language Conventions (which comprises spelling,
  grammar and punctuation).
• writing
• reading
• Numeracy comprises
• number
• algebra, function and pattern
• space
• measurement, chance and data.

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NAPLAN whose responsibility?

• NAPLAN information will be relevant to teachers
  to ensure student achievement of syllabus
  standards
• Literacy K-12 policy
• 1.2.6 Teachers K-12, across all key learning
  areas, are responsible for the teaching and
  learning of literacy skills, knowledge and
  understandings.

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SMART data
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Literacy teaching in NSW

• All teachers are responsible for developing and
  implementing an explicit and systematic, balanced
  and integrated approach to the teaching of
  literacy

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Literacy teaching in NSW

• Key messages
• All teachers are teachers of literacy.
• Literacy is required by Board of Studies syllabus
  documents.
• Literacy is best learned through an explicit,
  systematic, balanced and integrated approach.
• The Four Resources Framework provides a
  consistent approach across KLAs and stages.
• The NSW Quality Teaching model focuses discussion
  and reflection on planning, teaching and
  assessing.

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The Four Literacy Resources

• code breaking
• meaning making
• text using
• text analysing

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Technical language

• an astronomical observatory for marking
  significant events on the prehistoric calendar.
• Technical vocabulary astronomical, observatory,
  prehistoric
• Grammatical structure one long noun group
  including 2 phrases
• Polysyllabic words
• Nominalisation e.g. The original construction
  was replaces It was originally constructed

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Literacy learning experiences

• Share a quick overview of a unit you are
  currently teaching, or plan to teach.
• Prepare information about the learning experience
  to share with others in the group.
• Describe the learning experience
• At what point in a unit of work would you use
  this learning experience?
• Why would you use this learning experience?
• How would you support students to complete the
  task?
• Think about how the literacy learning experience
  you have been given could be used to support
  student learning.

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