LITERACY PROFESSIONAL

LEARNING RESOURCEPrimary Schools Program

Session 2: Linking Theories to Practice

Quotes

Let’s create a ‘Little Book of Quotes’!

Add quotes from the resource, including references, to support the professional learning of your colleagues.

Session 2 (Day 1) aims to:

• deepen literacy knowledge and understanding

• provide opportunities for you to explore the resource

• explore key terminology to develop a shared language for future conversations

• investigate and become familiar with the theories that underpin the resource.

Key terminology

To explore terminology we are going to use the Question Key from Tony Ryan’s Thinkers Key.

Start with an answer and list at least five questions that give only that answer.

www.tonyryan.com.au

To explore terminology we are going to use the Question Key from Tony Ryan’s Thinkers Keys.

Start with an answer and list at least five questions that give only that answer.

www.tonyryan.com.au

Activity - Key terminology

• form a group of two or three• each group will be provided with a key term or phrase (answer) from the resource• explore the resource to formulate at least five questions that give only that answer• present your findings on a poster• be prepared to share!

Key terminology

What is text that has a number of different modes?

What type of text includes words in

headings and headlines, images, and written text?

What text type does the author/student use to present

information in written and visual form?

If the answer is ‘multi-modal text’, what could the

questions be?

Linking theories to practice

… practitioners need to seek out a connective web that bonds various theories and research approaches, moving beyond the confines of a single model …

Linking theories to practice

… a single theoretical perspective cannot address all the issues faced by teachers and students in complex and diverse classrooms.

The theories of these theorists underpin the resource• Marie Clay

• Allan Luke

• Peter Freebody

• John Munro

• David Rose

• Lev Vygotsky

• Jerome Bruner

• Barbara Rogoff

Scaffolding

BrunerRogoffSharpe

Vygotsky

Activity - Investigating a theorySearch DoE - enter ‘Overview of Literacy Learning’.

Select four different link/s.

Investigate by reading the sections and recording key points.

Share your findings

Create a ‘Behind the Door’ or ‘Chatter Box’ to share your findings with a partner.

www.jamboree.freedom-in-education.co.uk/w's%20craft%20corner/Chbox.htm

Linking theory to practice

Discuss and record your understandings.

Add quotes to your ‘Little Book of Quotes’.

Consider:• How you will inform colleagues about the

theories • What tools or strategies you will use.