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SCITT English course days

SCITT English course days. Day 10 – Motivating learners through literacy. Book and author?. Task 9. Using a range of writing from a single child, decide on a judgement of their ability. What are the child’s next steps / targets?. Day 10 – Motivating Learners. You will understand:

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SCITT English course days

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  1. SCITT English course days Day 10 – Motivating learners through literacy

  2. Book and author?

  3. Task 9 • Using a range of writing from a single child, decide on a judgement of their ability. What are the child’s next steps / targets?

  4. Day 10 – Motivating Learners • You will understand: • How to hook children in • How to use visual literacy • What works with ICT in literacy • How to use challenge and variety to motivate

  5. We want learners who are... Engaged Interested

  6. Motivating learners In your experience what motivates the children in your class in literacy?

  7. The whole school picture • How switched on to learning are your children?

  8. The four drivers • Engagement – teachers showing that they are interested in their pupils and value them • Structure – organising progress through learning experiences (finding the balance between teacher control and allowing pupils self-determination) • Stimulation – activities that engage pupils’ interest • Feedback – constructive, supportive information to pupils on how they are progressing

  9. What can motivate... • Enthusiasm and positivity • Challenge • Pupil choice • Relevance • Linking with the curriculum • Variety • Exciting hooks • Clear purpose and audience • Visual literacy • ICT • Progress and praise

  10. Variety and choice • The three part lesson • The inductive lesson • Learning loops • The day long lesson • The outdoor lesson • The project • The simulation • The mantle • The challenge

  11. Varying pedagogy in English

  12. Building challenge “Achievements give pupils a buzz when attained at their highest possible challenge and skill level.” Alan McLean Therefore if work is always heavily scaffolded and pupils always succeed relatively easily then pupils will not be motivated or inspired.

  13. What creates challenge? • Higher order thinking skills • Open tasks with pupil choice • Inductive teaching • Sharp awareness of capabilities ensures pitch is high but achievable • Collaboration • Cognitive conflict • Freedom to try things out

  14. Making it challenging • Outline a lesson on adjectives • Make it challenging

  15. An opinion A role play A scenario A problem A demonstration Hooks • A question • A fact • A picture • A film • A package / box • Artefacts • A letter • An e-mail • A powerpoint

  16. Pick the hook Year 5 Explanation Year 6 Discussion Year 1 Story Year 2 Recount Year 4 List poem

  17. ICT that makes a difference

  18. Digital images • Hide and reveal • Photo storyboard • Cartoon storyboard • Photo sequencing • Phonics photos • Photostory

  19. Word processing Multimedia Video • Presentations • Multimedia books • Multimedia poems • Websites • Blogs Stop frame animation TV adverts Director’s commentary

  20. Useful software • Kartouche • Picture the music create • Photo Story • Clicker 5 • Espresso • Knowledge box • 2animate • Monkeyjam • Moviemaker • Comic Life • Blogger • WordPress • GameMakerLite • PBworks • GoogleSites

  21. Using Visual literacy

  22. What is Visual Literacy? • "Visual literacy means the skills and learning needed to view visual and audio visual materials sceptically, critically and knowledgeably" • “Visual Literacy takes film and image as its 'text'. Through studying this form, children can engage in learning about plot, setting, characters and motives. They also learn more about the importance of sound, colour, music and camera positions.”

  23. We can focus our use of visual literacy to improve… • Speaking and listening • Reading • Writing • Foundation subjects • PSHE • And to motivate learning The Literacy Shed

  24. In literacy • Stimulating poems • Prince of Egypt • To plan a piece of non-fiction • Walking with dinosaurs • Using a visual setting • Oswald • Using the structure of a visual text • Mr Benn • Writing a scene • Stuart Little

  25. In Literacy • Imitating authorial style • Wobbly Land • Presenting • Jamie’s Christmas • Using camera angles • The Phantom Menace • Comprehension of a visual text • Snow White

  26. Take one scene...

  27. Drama critic • Example objective – Consider how mood and atmosphere are created in live or recorded performance (Y2) • Text - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (scene 3)

  28. Consider how the atmosphere is created Now show how Lucy will enter the snowy wood

  29. Camera Angles • Example objective – Interrogate texts to deepen and clarify understanding and response (Y4) • Analyse ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ excerpt for its camera angles

  30. Ask the director • Example objective – Identify features that authors use to provoke reactions (Y3)

  31. Ask 3 ‘why’ questions of the director • Give the director time to read your questions • Interview the director to find the answers

  32. Angles on Grammar • Example objectives – All sentence structure objectives • Write a sentence for each scene • Consider the types of sentence that will work well

  33. Planning with camera angles • Example objective – Using planning to establish clear sections for writing (Y2) • In pairs, plan the entry into a secret world using camera angles on the storyboard

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