A day with Gail Loane inspires the most reluctant student or the busiest teacher. Here is a list of inspiration (notes) from a 5 hour workshop with Gail.
It was valuable to confirm what we do well, challenge our current beliefs and extend ways we can make our writing real, purposeful and meaningful for our children. Great tips but also a structure that will reflect progress for all children.
We are teaching children to notice, looking and recording.
We want children to grow up valuing writing as a satisfying
skill.
Prose – transactional writing, anything that is not poetry; a
natural flow of speech that applies grammatical structure.
Record of
progress
1.
Jottings
Mileage (writing daily)
Jottings, writing to learn, lists
Learning buddies – fast processing
2. Purposes
Writing to record experiences. What curriculum would that be? Recording
personal experiences, English, science, health,
‘I’ve Got
Something to Say’
‘How am I
going to say it?’
Annotate and deconstruct your model
What is in the curriculum? – use different text for different purposes.
Make it real.
Use real world opportunities NOT what is on the plan!!!! Writing
should be embedded in what we do in a day.
Seek opportunities for writing from events in your day
3.
Evidence of
student crafting and editing
Writing needs to be on every second line. Why are you doing that?
Edit as you go. Bad advice is to finish writing then go back to
edit/ Read write, reread, write. Prevents having to start again.
Goal – recorded in
book in different colour. Not a big laminated one but one that lasts only two
days. Goal – to reread each sentence.
Stop bad habits in surface features carrying on.
‘What are you learning about while you are writing about this?’
Get kids talking about their goals
Spelling
5 minute tutorials for spelling to address needs for that child.
4.
Teacher
Presence - Not teacher feedback
Teachers must sight every piece of work so you know what to do
tomorrow
Monitoring work to ensure progress is being made. No incomplete
work. Monitor children making repetitive mistakes.
There must a
teacher in a learning partnership with each child.
Colour code
your feedback
Feedback should be around what the child is doing.
Models
Use authors as our teachers
Stuck in the child’s book
What are
your beliefs?
-
They drive what you do and the quality of life. Your
beliefs create the learning environment.
Believe in what you have to do and live it.
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Strategies for Writing
Quick Write
5 minute talk about a model of writing – 3 minute writing
Song Lyrics
Poetry
Choose poetry that helps children to think
Entrainment – the process of putting images in their mind.
Writing
territories
Personal, Local
, National, Global
What’s going on in my world?
What’s going on in my life?
Structure or models
Provides support for success
Topics
The sign of Autumn
Who I am?
A reminder of what I care about
I’ve got something to say about …… what I care about
I can hear you... (sitting in nature, playground, classroom )
Favourite piece of clothing you ave grown out of
Sprint - being chased
Resources
School journals
readers
environment
picture books with rich language - fancy nancy
magazines
Parts of
Speech
Activate a noun = gardens wilt, grass faded, cicadas jingle
Lisiting sentences = drawing imaginary towns with chalk on the
street, holding impromptu bike races to the dairy for ice cream, fishing for
eels in the creek and making elaborate huts in the bush.
Interrupter - adding extra information between commas.
Commas – add more detail between commas.
Selectively dialogue to bring closure, humor.
Teacher Language
- Your use of ........... will help us. Can you share it with the group.
Use specific language - strong verbs, specific nouns,
Don't compare work or state its the best to other children.
Don't do the death by WALTS! Keep the magic and mystery of the writing.
Discuss teaching at end, show not tell, explore then describe
Use of our Investigating Books
Creates a space to practice without being judged
- wonderings
- noticings
- bring to shared reading, music listening,
- science reports, facts,
- sketching
- practice of new learning printing, word building
Model behaviors how to use the investigating books
Creating suspense
emotive language
-legs trembling, heart thumping,
-short sentences
- dialogue "GO! GO! GO!"
Use of questions - Where's the dog?
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