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Teacher Anne Girven
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The aim of this unit is for the students to develop information research study skills through shared, guided and independent reading programmes - gathering and ordering information, question setting, resource selection, skim reading, note taking, summarising, and use of electronic resources, eg. CD ROM/Internet. See:
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Learning task 3
Explain to the students the assessment indicators for this task. Groups then decide upon three or four key questions they want answered:
The students will conference with the teacher to ensure that the questions are not so specific or closed that the research process is invalidated or so broad as to be unmanageable. Information is to be presented in small groups using, eg. PowerPoint, OHT, fact file or a brochure.
self_assessment (RTF 11KB) assessment (RTF 9KB)
To develop their information literacy skills students will complete an authentic inquiry which has some link to their course work. A possible way of creating strong links with course work is to link their inquiry topic to their work around the "Explain significant connection(s) across texts, using supporting evidence" standard. For example, students could be reading a variety of texts which share a thematic connection of "control".
It is important to ensure that the area that is chosen as the basis for inquiry must give scope to be considered from at least two different viewpoints. This will give students the opportunity to draw conclusions and/or offer some informed advice on the issue.
Before requiring students to choose their own inquiry topic, you will need to model key parts of the inquiry process to the class, using material such as that below. The modelling process will provide the opportunity for you to teach students some important information literacy skills as well as demonstrate to students how they can plan, record, and present the results of their inquiry.
An important aspect of framing the inquiry involves building background knowledge. The modelled inquiry will be framed around the ideas concerning computer games.
Some other activities to build background knowledge could be:
Hold an Irish debate
A cline : Ask students to decide where they stand on the statement: “Computer games are harmless”. Strongly agree/ agree/ disagree/ strongly disagree. Class members stand in a line in the classroom according to where they rank themselves about this statement. Each person needs to come up with at least two reasons to justify where they stand. Each person needs to use their justifications to persuade the person next to them to move further up/down the cline.
Discussion cards – jigsaw activityStudents are given a discussion card. (for example, parent, gamer, doctor, researcher, teacher …) They form a group with others who have the same discussion card. The groups then discuss some arguments they could use to justify their case for or against the above statement. They then form themselves into groups where each member of the group has a different discussion card. Each group member now needs to argue their case within the group, using some of the ideas that were talked about with the previous group. This can then lead to full class discussion.
Learning Through Talk: Oral Language in Years 1–3: This resource is intended to help teachers of students in years 1 to 3 to understand the central role of oral language in supporting students’ learning. It suggests ways that teachers can help their students to become effective thinkers and communicators who use a range of strategies to make sense of the world, generate new ideas, and use language in increasingly sophisticated ways for specific purposes. It is available from Down the Back of the Chair.
Learning Through Talk: Oral Language in Years 4–8: This resource is intended to help teachers of students in years 4 to 8 to understand the central role of oral language in supporting students’ learning. It suggests ways that teachers can help their students to become effective thinkers and communicators who use a range of strategies to make sense of the world, generate new ideas, and use language in increasingly sophisticated ways for specific purposes. It is available from Down the Back of the Chair.
Developing classroom speaking activities: From theory to practice (63 kB): Article by Jack Richards written for classroom teachers.
Oral Language: Discusses the literacy challenges for English language learners and identifies effective teaching strategies for scaffolding oral language (The Education Alliance, Brown University).
Expanding Oral Language in the Classroom van Hees, J. (2007): This book offers a wide range of teaching and learning strategies for expanding learners’ oral language in the classroom.
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