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Creativity in Teaching English Reading and Writing. The Royal Thai Distance Learning Foundation with support from the American Embassy RELO Office and TOT. Review: Session 1. What is in the box?. What did you discuss in the previous session?. Review: Session 1. Prior experience.
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Creativity in Teaching English Reading and Writing • The Royal Thai Distance Learning Foundation with support from the • American Embassy RELO Office and TOT
Review: Session 1 What is in the box? What did you discuss in the previous session?
Review: Session 1 Prior experience Assumptions What someone says is ‘right’ or ‘true’ Belief systems Completed ideas Pre-determined solutions
Review: Session 1 What did you do in your classes? What worked? What didn’t work? What did you do to make it work? Classroom Applications
P LEASE O PEN THE BOX. E NJOY T HE JOURNEY. R EADY Y OURSELF. Welcome to Session 2
With a partner, look at the following picture carefully. Write as many words with 1-3 syllables as you can in 2 minutes. WordSplash!
With the same partner, pick FIVE of the words that best conveys the meaning of the picture. What do you feel? see? What does it remind you of? taste? WordPaint! hear? smell?
Haiku • Japanese form of poetry • 17 syllables (5-7-5) and a Kigo* (‘season’) • nature, feelings, experiences, every day things • imagery & senses As the wind does blow Across the trees, I see the Buds blooming in May UCLA Asia Institute What senses are awakened in the haiku above?
An old silent pond... An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. by Matsuo Basho What picture do you see in your head when you read this?
Painting A Mental Picture • Which word or words help(s) you paint this picture in your head? • What do you think this is about? Why? An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. by Matsuo Basho
YOUR TURN On your own or with a new partner, write a haiku inspired by the following picture. form precise & simple compact & meaningful content language
How can you find your voice as a writer?
EXPERIENCE and VOICE engaging and reshaping observing the world transformation and innovation multimodal and multicultural autonomy and choice (Grainger, Goouch, Lambirth)
Unfinished Haikus With a partner, complete the missing lines of haikus in your handout. Please prepare to share it.
Exquisite Haikus Groups of three people. Each write a specific haiku line. Don’t show it. After all are done and put together, does it make sense? Why or why not?
Experience & VoiceYour Thoughts Writing poetry is .... because .... This helps me with my language because... This helps me with my creativity because...
Teaching Implications • What are some new ideas and perspectives have you learned? • What can you adapt and apply to your overall teaching? • What will you try in your classrooms soon?
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