At School
A course designed for:
Young Learners - Kindergarten to Grade 2
Theme: At School
Goals:
too build rapport with the students through the student Learning Framework
to interact and engage students using appropriate communicative functions
Communicative Functions:
-point and say vocabulary.
-Introduce oneself using “ What is you name?”
-Asking and answering “How are you?”
-Asking questions about new words using “What is this?”
-Asking questions about new words using “What do you have?”
-Role-play target language using puppets.
-Talk about ability using “I can read.”
-Naming colors.
-Counting to 10.
Materials:
Miniboard, board markers, erasers, pencils, eraser, scissors, paper, a book with animal pictures, etc.
Skills:
4 skills
Students’ Learning Framework
Community: to establish and maintain community norms: to cooperate, communicate and collaborate in positive and supportive manner
Care: to observe students interests, talents and attitude towards other students, teachers and curriculum goals and objectives.
Context: to make language learning meaningful for each student. Provide and follow frameworks to acquire and learn language.
Connections: to connect what they are doing and learning in ways that develop language acquisition.
Challenge: to better understand students abilities through participation, observation, evaluation and curation of student's work.
Creativity: to provide opportunities to participate in activities that allow for students talents and interest to emerge.
Curiosity: to arouse and maintain children’s curiosity by allowing students to be apart of the curriculum development plan through student generated content.
Course Map: to be intentional with the opportunities for children to acquire and learn language. to ensure language acquisition and awareness is meaningful, engaging, relevant and worthwhile to the learners
Inspired by Carol Reed.
https://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/c-is-for-c-wheel/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18TSvQ_NvCCKL7duB0V5eVevD9O7aJi7V/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18TSvQ_NvCCKL7duB0V5eVevD9O7aJi7V/view?usp=sharing
This is really cool, Rhett! I like your consistent use of fonts. The materials look really colorful and child-friendly. I like how simple the instructions are for kids (and parents). What is the little column on the right of each page for? (The "Learn" and "I can" part)
ReplyDeleteAnne Hendler The column on the left part of the trains the students to review the content after they have studied. I usually ask the students to study the content 2 times per day. And then then, on evaluation day, they self-assess their level of achievement of each page.
ReplyDeleteIf you are in Malaysia, you'll make good money selling books like this!
ReplyDeleteDay In Day Out Thank you. It has taken me a long time to create this pdf. One day...soon... I other teachers will find the resources I create valuable for their teaching context.
ReplyDeleteLovely material! It looks so professional! I like the images and the design very much. I'd love to know if you introduce oral skills together with writing skills. Do you have audios or is the teacher expected to read? Do you use any special app or program for the design?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful graphics, Rhett. Can I ask how you created these?
ReplyDeleteAdi Rajan I work with an illustrator who draws several pictures for me every month. Months turned into years and a few pictures turned into hundreds. My initial goal was to create an iPad app. Now... not too sure. But I am dreaming of things all the time.
ReplyDeleteRhett Burton Aah I see. I've tried using a Wacom tablet as well as an iPad to create my own but they always look a bit amateurish.
ReplyDeleteAdi Rajan Me Too!
ReplyDeleteHi Rhett, sorry I missed this! I love that you've been inspired by Carol Read. She was one of my first teacher trainers many moons ago and has been very supportive ever since. You know I'm a big fan of your materials and I love how you are constantly trying to make them better and better. I've seen you've bene looking at them to make them 'sharper' and 'cleaner' too - that's all good. And congratulations to the illustrator of course. These materials are great because they develop so many skills - linguistic ones and life skills too. I really can't fault these materials. Have you found a 'writing buddy' yet? You don't have to limit it to one either - maybe a mini breakaway group of like-minded writers working with primary. Let me know!
ReplyDeleteLaura Perrotta Sorry I missed your questions. I normally read the dialogues each session. I try to spend around 10 minutes on the text (always reviewing). I spend most of my time interacting with the students in ways i think will work with the children. I design all my work in Keynote for MAC. I just copy and paste the images into the slide. The graphics themselves weren't quick to get though... I have been collecting them for the past 4 years.
ReplyDeleteKatherine Bilsborough I haven't found any writing buddies. I look from time to time but I never really... get my act together and sort out what I need to get help. This is something I hope to change in the coming months. Learning the roles needed to bring the project to life has been interesting (and a little overwhelming at times).
ReplyDeleteRhett Burton Thanks for your answer! I´d love to work with you writing some material. However, I´m afraid we teach with different approaches. All the same we can try! I´d love to! Let me know if you like the idea!
ReplyDeleteImagine English School teaching vs materials development. My textbook mostly serves as a guide to what concept and themes I will teach.
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