Science and Technoloy -back to the future

Sometimes it is necessary to revisit devices used in the past. The Effective Literacy Strategies handbook is an excellent place to start when attempting to teach comprehension skills in a subject area. I've asked teachers to use the handbook to explore basic comprehension skills and to teach them in their classes.

Reading Fitness Programme

One way to motivate teachers into teaching comprehension skills in their subject is to shown teachers how much reading happens in their classroom and how much reading students do over the period of a day or a week. This is based on Secondary Literacy, A Teacher Handbook by Jennifer Gleen and Irene Anderson which in tern was based on the work of Heemi McDonald. I hope to use this for a limited period in the comming weeks.