WHAT DOES IT MEAN

TO BE LITERATE?

New Poem New words Should be used to being Where they have not yet got.So this is the poem This poem is the words, So new, have yetNot got used to being.Where should they be? This poem is so newThe words have not yetGot used to beingWhere they should be. Roger McGough

Being able to understand what words can do

Being able to understand what words + images can do

http://www.genderremixer.com/lego/

Being able to understand the power of words

That very night in Max’s room a forest grew.

Being able to make words work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOPsxpMzYw4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI

Break the code of texts

Literate language users need to be able to:

Understand the meaning of texts

Life Text Text

Understand the form and features of texts

Understand that words don’t always mean what they say

Understand that texts are not neutral or innocent

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Enjoy Language

I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave "V" words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land's-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid. I like elegant, flowery words, such as estivate, peregrinate, elysium, halcyon. I like wormy, squirmy, mealy words, such as crawl, blubber, squeal, drip. I like sniggly, chuckling words, such as cowlick, gurgle, bubble and burp.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-like-words.html

• A socio-cultural practice: embedded meaning making

• Emphasis on engagement in real contexts - teaching skills as they are needed by the child

• Emphasis on what the child can do and what the child wants to do

• Teachers provide contexts for children’s independent and freely chosen literate activities

• Teachers nurture children’s literacy development

Literacy from the bottom up

Literacy from the top down

• Emphasis on teaching of skills in an incremental way

• Seen as a developmental process

• Emphasis on decontextualised activities such as worksheets and tests to practise and assess skills

• Decisions about what children need to know and be taught are decided externally (eg by curricula)

• Teachers deliver literacy to children

THE ENGLISH TEAM AT CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY:  

Believe that children’s ability to communicate through language and texts of all kinds is central to their learning and development - not just in school but throughout their lives.

We aim to facilitate your engagement with Primary English in order that you make a significant difference to the literacy learning and lives of every child with whom you work based on a principled understanding of what makes the teaching of English effective.

 

WE BELIEVE THAT TEACHERS OF PRIMARY ENGLISH:• Are passionate about language in all its forms. They talk, they

read, they write and they play with words and texts to create and recreate meaning and pleasure for a range of audiences and purposes.

• Know and love children’s literature and have experienced first-hand the power of texts to transform lives –understanding also how language and texts can be used to subvert and distort the messages they purport to convey.

• See children as expert individuals who bring a wealth of enthusiasm, knowledge, understanding and agency with them to every literacy activity they undertake.

• Understand their role in inspiring, motivating and engaging children in all aspects of Primary English

• See research as fundamental to the ongoing pursuit of effective practice in Primary

TODAY!

The structure of the day is as follows:

Groups 1-4 am

9-10 Lecture Pg09

10-12 Seminars: Group 1 Mg02, Group 2 Mg04, Group 3 Mg05, Group 4 Mg08

Groups 5-8 pm

1-2 Lecture Pg09

2-4 Seminars: Group 5 Mg04, Group 6 Mg05, Group 7 Mg08, Group 8 Mg10.

NB TOMORROW’S MATHS LECTURE IS IN RG38 NOT HERE!