AITSL STANDARD: 1.5 - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities. The Situation Often, I find that students are quite vague about where their story … Continue reading Visualization and Creative Writing
Month: April 2020
Teaching…Denotations and Connotations
The Situation Your students need to understand that words have specific meanings and are used in specific contexts. The Solution You need to teach your students about denotations and connotations. Denotations refer to what an object literally is. For example: An owl is literally a bird. A diamond ring is literally a piece of jewellery. The colour black … Continue reading Teaching…Denotations and Connotations
Teaching…Metaphors and Similes
The Situation You need strategies to explain metaphors and similes to your students. The Solution Language Features are widely accepted techniques or devices that audiences may expect to find in a text of a particular genre. Choices in language features and text structures together define a type of text and shape its meaning. Examples Metaphors … Continue reading Teaching…Metaphors and Similes
Determining Levels of Importance in a Written Text
The Situation Your students find it difficult to know what information they should focus on in a written text. The Solution Determining Importance is the process of locating the most important information in the text. Present the following situation: You are going for a run around a lake. It will take about an hour to … Continue reading Determining Levels of Importance in a Written Text
Developing Questions For Stronger Comprehension
The Situation Your students need to start developing questions about the characters, setting, text structure etc of the narrative. The Solution Questioning - is the process of developing questions in response to the readers' understanding of the text. Encouraging students to ask questions is a great way to develop higher-order thinking. Students should develop questions … Continue reading Developing Questions For Stronger Comprehension
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