Workshop 6

Hi everyone,
A reminder of your next JuLS workshops:

Whangarei: Wednesday, August 26 at Tai Tokerau Education Centre Seminar Room.
Kaitaia: Wednesday, September 2 at Kaitaia Primary School

As usual please bring: ELP, LLP, NZC, photocopies of your reflection notes fron Workshop 5.
Plus:
Recently taken and analysed running records of your target students (on seen text)
The relevant texts to go with the running records.
The Guided Reading handout from Workshop 5

Cheers, Glenys & Raewyn

Pukenui children's writing

Today at Juls Lynne from Pukenui shared some great examples of developing children's writing for the purpose of moving from one level to another...

Here are a few photos of the beginning steps taken to make that transition with a focus on story beginnings...

Glenys is on

Kia ora everyone

Well, after several attempts I'm finally on. Thanks to Jeannie and Dyane forsetting this blog up - a new thing for me! I see this as a great opportunity to keep up the communicaton, discussions, sharing and learning between workshops and buddy visits. I suspect like all of you, now that I know how to use the site I'll be a regular visitor and contributor. I'm lookimg forward to your posts.

Workshop 5 National Library session

Here are some links to items relating to the Kaitaia JuLS workshop.

Library modules http://tiny.cc/Libraryknowledge

An interesting and entertaining article about Melvil Dewey http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA148748.html

Book selection / browsing strategies http://tiny.cc/Goldilocks

Poetry friendly classrooms http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/poetryfriendly.html

Suggestions for read-alouds for junior classes http://tiny.cc/Readaloudsuggestions

A few favourite authors / illustrators
Paul Fleischman, Sarah Stewart/David Small, Emily Gravett, Chris Wormell, Roxie Munro, and quirky, interesting Gecko Press books...