Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Teaching Literacy in a Junior Play-Based Classroom Webinar 1

Facilitated by Stacey 

Message about play-when they go into the classroom of play, it does look very different. Once we become confident about play, play is not a narrow field, but comes from a wide background. 

Constructivist Theory:
it is not just about teaching, new way of believing how people learn, how our brains are neurological process. 
Children come to you with their kete of knowledge, children come to school knowing a lot about literacy. In relation to the environment, others, 
Learning through play-everything that we are doing

Group learning-less of switch and flick, but consistent approach 

Stimulate children in all areas of learning 
Aspects of many things happening- social emotional skills, academic skills, physical skills, Multi sensory
Language development: Oral language in the centre of learning/play 
Process of learning- children see themselves as learners 
Getting children to connect, how do we do this? We are internalising it and we get out of schooling differently-how constructivists think... 
Providing opportunities to do it differently 

Developmentally appropriate, practical, hands on so that they can learn

How children learn literacy 
We need to engage children in a rich way, getting children talk about the topic, listening to children 
A lot of language use happening when they are playing 

Jerome Bruner 
Scaffolding-assitence needing to build on what they already know 

Create an environment -our third teacher 

How are we creating readers and writers from their eyes? 
What children are learning? What they already know? 

Level of pressure- can affect the children's pressure 
If they dont know letter sounds, what else do they need to know? We are looking for what it is that they cant do.... 
Do they know songs? rhymes? Old Macdonalds? 
Pre writing stages - making marks, scribbles, making symbols, making letters 
What children can do independently

What books do they know? enjoy? If they speak another language, how willing are they to speak? 

Children's interests-big book? library books? browsing books? Guided books? key words on the wall? 
Responding to their interests
If they are interested in making a cafe- how are we supporting them? 

Wait for the answer for 2 seconds at least 
Play is not what the children are doing but this is what we think, how we think 

Oral language is the base of everything 
We are not taking the learning away from the children 

Constructivism: Active participation from children 
reluctant writers/readers are often our target children-get to the point where they are constructing meaning, Thier kete of knowledge that we are influencing 

Phonics learning: at the point of needs- research at Massey uni  
children not making links between phonics learning and reading and writing 
Culture of learning: continue to challenge ourselves 
How do we know how children best learn? Small groups? 

Children do it at their own pace and their time 

what's the end result of learning literacy? 
Joyfuly love reading 
Motivate to be persistent 
Chat about what is important to them 
Children learn words that matter to them 
Role play, fantasy play 

Balanced reading programme 
Reading to: Teacher in total control: support the love of reading 
Beautiful way to poking a bubble, access to a story 

Reading with: Shared reading
2 guided groups and shared reading with 2 more groups 

Reading with: Guided reading 
quality, less groups 

Reading by: personal reading 
Independent reading by children 
When are they reading for enjoyment? 
Browsing books systems 


Children to have a level of ownership 

old skill new content 
new skills old content 

Children know the content and has experiences of it Lavalava 
Collect students voice 
write down the children's voices 

Shared reading 
Finding whys 
Intentional and purposeful 
Links to the interests of children? 
Introduce it and simple, short 
Read the story first 

Guided 
Instructional 
What children's needs are, meeting their needs 


Successful literacy classroom 
let children read

not so successful worksheets/word games 

Repetition is really important 
Browsing boxes 

Dramatic play 
Links to literacy- developmentally appropriate 
Student led 
practicing real life 
Relationships 

links to what you are doing with literacy content 

Invitations and provocations 
Use loose parts 
Reading to and shared reading 
Concept of characterisation 
Pre-operational stage 
Story table with loose parts 
Children interact with them anyway they like 

Inferring and comprehension (changing the story line) this is why you do not have to have the exact set of things 

The books that children really loved listening to 

Mark making-writing 
pre learning wiring lense 

Big sheets of paper 
different materials 

Need some introduction 
Explore from a fantasy perspective 
They cant take things out, but add things in. 
                         

Make a kete of it so that it has resources already and easy to access 
Writing resources: chalk board and chalks, note pads, clipboards, little notebooks  



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