Sally Avern's Professional Journey

Teaching my students to be critical thinkers through multiple choice answers. Which one doesn't belong? You could introduce multi choice questions through this. It could be quite fun. Search for the Kraken on the internet. Decide: Is the Kraken real, imaginary, or something in between? How do you know? Why might it be important to be able to figure this sort of thing out? Go Meta! How did you work with others to figure this out? List some things a partner noticed or said that shifted your thinking. List some things you noticed or said that helped the inquiry. List some things your group could do better next time. How did you figure out the reliability of the websites you found? How did you know whether a site was “legit” or not? Critical Literacy and fake news Education Week, June 2017 (Anne S) Is the Kraken real? Where is your evidence? Text Text one Youtube Going meta…..   Stop them after the first source of eviden...

Here is it starting to take shape in my practice. As you can see, this is my reading planning. Weeks 7 & 8 Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Names x x x x interpreting illustrations, photographs, text boxes, diagrams, maps, charts, and graphs. understand how they select from and use their repertoire of comprehension strategies, which include: –  locating and summarising ideas  by skimming or scanning, - drawing on several related items of information in order to infer ideas and information that are not directly stated in the text reflect on writers’ purposes and on the ways in which writers use language and ideas to suit their purposes (e.g., by using confirming ideas to support them). finding and learning the meanings of unknown vocabulary by using strategies such as applying their knowledge of how words work or seeking explanations in the text or in illustrations; WALT reflect on writers’ purposes locating and summaris...