Pre Reading
Hey #NZreadaloud team! Welcome to Blog 2.
Message from Kerri: We are using Blogger again this term in the hope it becomes a bit more interactive than previous terms.
With our 'go-to' platform Edmodo closing down, we need to find another place for our students to participate in critical literary discussions and I think Blogger has the potential to be used in a similar way. Incorporate blog reading and replying into your programme. Teach your students HOW to end their post with a question to encourage others to come in and reply. This is all great literacy learning and it is this dialogic discussion between students that we want to encourage.
The blog is also a space for you and your class to share any learning they are doing during the reading of our Term 1 book.
This could be photos of their sketch-noting, predictions and / or connections they are making, questions they want to put to others, words and language features they have investigated or research they have done.
When students post something, ask them to explain the learning they have done from the work. Get them to complete their post with a question which others can come in and reply or comment on.
Kia ora #NZreadaloud teachers! I started using blogs in my classroom back in 2015 when I joined Quad-Blogging Aotearoa. It opened a new world to me and my learners and we loved it! What a safe and easy way for classes to connect with each other AND to learn the skills of having discussions AND to learn about Digital Citizenship in an authentic way. I think there is so much potential in Blogs and hope that, with all your great teaching to set kids up for success, it can be a really active platform for our literary discussions. How do you plan to incorporate the Blog into your programme?
ReplyDeleteThanks. I am going to be doing a little learning as I am going and hopping to learn off others and how they do this. I want to have the students reply and use the blog. I may ask a lot of questions. One that I have is how do others get the students using Blog? Do you have all your students using it?
ReplyDeleteKia Ora Jaime! We are all learning together! What I do is share the blog link with my students https://nzrachildrenoftherush2.blogspot.com/ and then they go on each week and make at least 1 comment. Make sure they are logged in so there google profile shows. Explicitly teach how to reply or comment on a blog. Eg 'Kia Ora Ashgrove School. Thanks for sharing on learning on the Otago Gold Rush. I was particularly interested in ***. What do you think about ***.' Thanks Fiona
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