Ryan Heights Primary School

1. RHPS Ryan Heights Primary School Established: 1956 11 Mackenzie Road, Kellyville NSW www.ryanheights-p.schoolwebsite.com.au

2. School Background with LBOTE students 18% 82% LBOTE students born in Australia Non-LBOTE H

3. Focus Group • Stage 1: Years 1-2 • 35 EAL (English as an additional language) • Children backgrounds: Punjabi, Sinhalese, Afrikaans, Cantonese etc. Issue: Not understanding English H

4. What Research Tells Us About These Students • ESL students ‘learn’ to participate in marginalised ways (Dooley, 2008) • Ways to overcome it are:- Collaboration Thinking time Technology Reading and writing should be taught together E

5. What Research Tells Us About These Students • ICT can be used in two ways in your classroom: • An aid for student understanding • As a method for differentiating the activities E

6. What Research Tells Us About These Students Phase 3 Phase 2 Phase 1 E

7. Literacy Strategies David Rose Teaching Reading and Writing to Aboriginal Children In Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Education E

8. Literacy Strategies Step 1: Step 2: Image on IWB Think Pair Share E

9. It’s All About Activating Prior Knowledge Step 3 • Continue lesson by discussion the images Descriptive words Emotions place Content picture Vocabulary General knowledge for whole class Build up students knowledge base H

10. It’s All About Activating Prior Knowledge Step 4 • Map the children's’ discussions H

11. Language Acquisition Little Explorers Picture Library – Enchanted Learning / Dictionary http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html. H

12. Language Acquisition Spelling City H

13. Example Step 5 • Introduce book by • Predict meaning throughout text; • Begin at the cover page • Oral • Writing • Reading literacy • Support procedural language acquisition (Dooley, 2008) H

14. Forming Groups • Research tell us, when forming groups there is benefit in keeping students of similar languages together:- • Promotes greater social interaction • Fosters a sense of identity (Dooley 2008) • Helps break the social power relations at play amongst monolingual English speakers and • Preserves a positive perspective on ELL first language (Diaz & Harvey, 2007) H

15. Authentic Task Step 6 • Provide an authentic task • Collaboration • Research and • Presentation • Design a wiki using ‘wiki spaces classroom’ http://www.wikispaces.com • Creative thinking • Creative thinking, • Project management, • Collaborative work and • Autonomous learning E

16. Technology • Activities can be differentiated through technology Geography Civics and Citizenship Mathematics Science History Arts Languages English E

17. Technology • Apps can be used as a motivator for speech • Assist the student to build their knowledge and understanding of English • Work on their pronunciation and listening, reading and writing. PCS Scramble PCS Bingo

18. Technology

19. Thank You .

20. References • Cooper, D. & Kiger, N.D. (2003). Literacy: Helping Children Construct Meaning. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company • Cope, B., and Kalantzis, M. (2000) (The New London Group) A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies. In Cope, B., and Kalantzis, M. Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the design of futures. Long : Routledge • Diaz, C., & Harvey, N. (2007). Other Words, other worlds: Bilingual identities and literacy. In Makin L., Diaz, C.J., Mc Lachlin C. Literacies in Childhood Changing Views, changing practice. Marrickville, NSW: Elsevier • Dooley, K. (2008). Multiliteracies and pedagogies of New Learning for Students of English as an additional language. In Healy, A., Multiliteries and Diversity in Education. Oxford: Oxford University press (Chapter 5) • Killen, R. (2001). Programming and assessment for quality teaching and learning. South Melbourne, Victoria: Cengage Learning Australia • Rose, D. (2008). Teaching Reading and Writing to Aboriginal Children. In N. Harrison (2008). Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Education. Sydney: Oxford University Press (Chapter 4)