Literacy Across the Curriculum
I am really interested to find out different ideas for how people are assessing across the curriculum in Literacy. I am trialing a research model at the moment that incorporates reading for research and then writing using the information gained. It is going well however I am worried it is not rigourous enough. Ideas, comments, suggestion all appreciated 
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- Suzie Vesper (View all users posts) 11 Oct 2012 9:28am (224 days ago)
When you say that you don't think it is rigourous enough, what it is that you think could be tightened up? How are the students organising the information that they read during the research phase before writing? This snapshot written by a year 8 teacher showed how she used a mindmapping tool to help them record and then reorganise their ideas before writing and she found it really effective.
- Vicki Hagenaars (View all users posts) 19 Oct 2012 9:08pm (215 days ago)
Thanks for the link Suzie. Hadn't found that one. Will come in handy with my Year 8s when we begin to research for Social Studies later in the Term before producing picture books about Early Wanganui. Am thinking we might create ebooks and use a QR Code on a picture of places around Wanganui to link to the students research. Whole process still forming in my head - may need a spidermap myself!
- Suzie Vesper (View all users posts) 04 Nov 2012 10:39pm (199 days ago)
That sounds awesome Vicki. I'm quite interested in the educational use of QR codes. Maybe you could blog about it here when you've put it into action to share how it went and to give the rest of us some tips :)
- Catriona Pene (View all users posts) 19 Oct 2012 9:10pm (215 days ago)
Sounds like a great use of QR codes Vicki, please share your journey and photos with us, I am always looking for exciting examples of QR codes being used to enhance learning. : )
- Siobhan Patterson (View all users posts) 22 Oct 2012 2:07pm (212 days ago)
Wow, some very inspiring ideas ladies, I really like the idea of Spidermap - it is accessible to the children and seems easy to use - I will trial this next year as a way of recording ideas. :) Thanks Suzie
- Suzie Vesper (View all users posts) 04 Nov 2012 10:20pm (199 days ago)
Not a problem. We use SpiderScribe quite heavily too in our online school at the moment and it is a great tool. There are a few more snapshots coming out soon that also talk about ways of using it for literacy so I will post the links as they come on stream.
- Vicki Hagenaars (View all users posts) 05 Nov 2012 9:26pm (198 days ago)
Will do because it will certainly be by trial and error!