Thinking Through Literature

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Thinking Through Literature

• ALEA/TATE Conference
• Future Literacies? Today!
• Launceston, May 2006
• Jennie Bales

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Overview

• Selecting literature
• Exploring values
• The Four Resource Model
• Thinking strategies to support readers
• as text participants
• as text users
• as text analysts

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Selecting literature

• Reading Enriches Learning
• Curriculum Corporation website
• National Values for Australian Schooling
• Reading Enriches Reading Values
• http//www.curriculum.edu.au/rel
• Picture books that explore the Essential Values
• eCentre - Find resources
• ASLA Tasmania
• http//www.aslatas.asn.au/

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Locating Values Literature
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The Four Resources Model

• Code breakers know the relationship between
  spoken and written language and can interpret
  graphic symbols and their contexts of use.
• Text participants know the meaning patterns
  operating in written texts.
• Text users know and use social and cultural
  functions of reading and writing practices.
• Text analysts know that texts position readers
  differently, and both constrain and influence
  them.

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Questions to develop text participating strategies

• What did you feel when you read this story?
• How do you feel as you read this text?
• What would you do in this situation?
• What are the characters thinking or feeling?
• Predict what you think this text might be about?
• Does this text remind you of something that has
  happened to you?
• What do you think the next picture will look
  like?

• Department of Education, Tasmania. Learning
  teaching and assessment guide

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Using graphic organisers

• Y Charts - What does the forest look like, sound
  like and feel like?
• Venn diagram - In what ways does the story remind
  you of something that has happened to you?

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Y Chart

• As you watch the video of Where the Forest Meets
  the Sea complete the Y Chart, recording your
  responses to the story.

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Y Chart sample
Created in Kidspiration
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Venn Diagram
Created in Kidspiration
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Questions to develop text using strategies

• What do you notice about the way this text looks?
• Which special features does this text have?
• How can you find information in this text?
• If you wrote a text like this which words would
  you use?

Department of Education, Tasmania. Learning
teaching and assessment guide
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A-Z Chart

• Complete the chart with examples of words, ideas
  or information that you have gained from reading
  Where the Forest Meets the Sea. Share your chart
  with a partner and explain where you found your
  ideas.

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Questions to develop text analysing strategies

• What opinions has the composer expressed? Why?
• What is fact and what is opinion in this text?
• What do you notice about the way this text looks?
• Is the composer of this text being fair?
• In whose interest is this text?
• How is the composer of this text trying to make
  you feel? Why?

Department of Education, Tasmania. Learning
teaching and assessment guide
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Diamond Display

• What will happen to the forest if the Star Hotel
  is built?

• Brainstorm as many ideas as you can and choose
  nine to record in a diamond display. Sort your
  diamond to show the things you think will have
  the most effect on the forest.

Created in Kidspiration
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6 Hat Thinking
A summary of the intent of each hat is on the
back of the handout.

• Develop a question for each of De Bonos hats
  to scaffold students thinking about Where the
  Forest Meets the Sea.

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PMI Workshop Reflection

• Reflection
• Complete the PMI provided to reflect on your
  learning, reactions and recommendations on the
  session you have just participated in.

P M I

• Please pass it in, your feedback is welcome.

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Bibliography

• Bales, J 2006, Reading enriches learning Values,
  Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne, viewed 6 May
  2006., httpwww.curriculum.edu.au/rel
• Baker, J 1987, Where the forest meets the sea,
  Walker Books, London.
• Department of Education, Tasmania, Specific
  focus Being literate The four Resources Model
  in Learning, teaching and assessing guide, viewed
  6 may 2006, http//www.ltag.education.tas.gov.au
• Ludwig, C 2000, Literacy in the learning areas
  a proposition, in Literacy in the middle years,
  Australian Literacy Educators Association, vol 8,
  no 1, pp. 37-43

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Bibliography

• Luke, A Freebody, P 2004, The Four Resources
  Model, in A Healy and E Honan (eds.), Text next
  new resources for literacy learning, Primary
  English Teaching Association, Newtown, NSW.
• Luke, A Freebody, P 1999, further notes on the
  Four Resources Model, Reading online - research
  Four Resources Model, viewed 30 April, 2006,
  http//www.readingonline.org/research/lukefreebody
  .html
• Where the forest meets the sea an animated film
  set in the Daintree, Film Australia