EDUC3651 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Australian Curriculum, Online Analytical Processing
Week Two
Lecture Two: What needs to be taught in writing
Theories:
- Multidimensional Model for writing (Exam Q1)
o Draw and explain for exam
▪ Understand all the elements
▪ Basis of your writing program
• Done through the gradual release of responsibility
- Cambourne’s conditions (Exam Q2 – Reading on Blackboard)
o What will you do through each of the stages?
▪ Immersion
▪ Demonstration
▪ Expectations
▪ Responsibility
▪ Use
• Meaningful and useful → engagement
▪ Approximation
▪ Response
Australian Curriculum English – Western Australian Curriculum
- Language
o Knowing about the English language
- Literature
o Understanding, approaciating, responding to, analysing, and creating literature
- Literacy
o Expending the repertoire of English usage
- Strands and sub-strands
o Content descriptions in each strand are grouped into sub-strands that, across the year
levels, present a sequence of development of knowledge, understanding and skills
Judging Standards
- Western Australian Curriculum English http://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/
Year 3
- Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their
purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences)
- Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts
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- Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of
contraction are used to signal missing letters
The future
- Change is the most certain thing in life
- As a teacher, you must learn to be
o Flexible
o Adaptable
o Open
o Reflective
o Honesy
o Sincere
o Genuine
Reflection
- What are your memories of learning to write?
- Which model of literacy learning did you experience?
- What are your current views of how you will teach writing?
First Steps Map of Development
- Structured to reflect current view of literacy as a social practice
- We write to communicate
o Developmental learning
▪ Four key aspects
• Use of text → Literature
• Contextual Understanding → Language
• Conventions → Literacy
• Processes and strategies → How to teach
- Using the Writing Map of Development
o Purpose
o “to link assessment, teaching and learning in a way that best addresses the strengths
and needs of all students”
▪ WMD p. 11
Overview of the Writing Developmental Continuum
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Document Summary
Lecture two: what needs to be taught in writing. Multidimensional model for writing (exam q1: draw and explain for exam, understand all the elements, basis of your writing program, done through the gradual release of responsibility. Expectations: responsibility, use, meaningful and useful engagement, approximation, response. Literature: understanding, approaciating, responding to, analysing, and creating literature. Literacy: expending the repertoire of english usage. Strands and sub-strands: content descriptions in each strand are grouped into sub-strands that, across the year levels, present a sequence of development of knowledge, understanding and skills. Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts. Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters. Change is the most certain thing in life.
