Story-led learning environments (download version)

Title: Story-led learning Environments

Kay Yong, Khoo BSc.(MU); MSc.(ITE) (HKU); EdD(HKU)

Contemporary Literacies & Contemporary approach to literacies

The affordance of different modes in communication


The affordance of different modes in communication –Written text


The affordance of different modes in communication –temporal and ubiquitous advantage


What are contemporary texts?

Voice Sounds movement

Images gestures

Spatial Temporal text

創新比較分析

Ministry of Education(2006) of Ontario,

Canada, has

incorporatedmultimodal texts intothe curriculum foryoung children as earlyas at stage one (p. 45).Multimodal texts arereferred to as mediatexts in the curriculum,and are introduced inthe English Curriculumguide as one of fourstrands: oralcommunication,reading, writing andmedia literacy.

In the UK, a new

primary curriculum isbeing reviewed and thiswill be implemented in2011. “ Viewing ” , isdefined as a skillnecessary forunderstanding andresponding toinformation, and“ broadcasting ” isidentified as one of thekey skills required topresent ideas andopinions. (Departmentfor Children schools andfamilies UK, 2009).

Australia has a long

history of incorporatingmultimodal texts intothe context of Englishlearning (CurriculumCorporation., 1994; NewSouth Wales Board ofStudies, 1998). In therecent outlinedAustralia NationalEnglish Curriculum,systematic explorationand production ofmultimodal texts havebeen introducedthroughout the schoolyears (NationalCurriculum Board,2008).

MOE Singapore has

also introduced newEnglish LanguageCurriculum in 2010 forprimary and secondaryschools to beimplemented from 2010.In the new curriculum,viewing and representingskills are introduced asreceptive and productiveskills to incorporate awide range of literacyinformation/functionaltexts (Singapore, 2010)

There is an acknowledgement that the English Curriculum has to evolveaccording to the changing world to prepare children for theopportunities and challenges of life in the 21st century.

Children learn about the basic structure of words by seeing the relationship between things.

Entertainment

PassiveFor enjoyment

Short-livedDoes not require relevance

Escape from problemsUsing the creativity of others

Engagement

ActiveFor learning

Long term resultsMeaningful and applicable

Solving problemsUsing the creativity of the

participants

The process of the learning and not the product that matters!成績過程

Must have Nice to have

Why Phonics?

Chinese—看字识义

Chinese—看字识义

睛清蜻晴 ……

a flag

flag

a tfl

a nkth

a emfr

PHONIC

S

Montessori

Phonics-44

Joyce Morris, who has died aged 93, was a tirelessworker for the better teaching and learning of literacy.She influenced generations of children through herinput to the pioneering BBC television series Look andRead (first broadcast in 1967) and Words and Pictures(from 1970), and her Language in Action series of initialreading books (1974-83). Both were informed by heranalysis of the phonetics of English – a system that shedubbed Phonics 44, published in 1984 but devised muchearlier – and by a keen appreciation of how to makereading appealing to young children.Joyce argued that English orthography is highlypatterned. Only a relatively small proportion of wordsdiverge completely from conventional patterns. The vastmajority of words can be recognized and spelled byapplying the alphabetic principle of phoneme-graphemecorrespondence and a knowledge of the statisticalprobability of sound-symbol relationships in English.Language in Action included both realistic and fantasystories, in a variety of settings, and simple informationbooks written by a team of talented authors andillustrators working to Joyce’s brief.

Denise Lamb , ConventryAuthored Children’s stories and reading materials

Knowledge? Or Skill? PHONIC

S

蛾

我

卞

下

e

bian

Xia

ˇ

ˋ

ˊ

wo

ˋ

字拼音

a-e

ape

ate

sale

ale

/eI/

/eIp/

/eIt/

/eIl/

/seIl/

字拼音

What is Syntax?

Syntax

A sentence is a grammatical unitconsisting of one or more words thatbear minimal syntactic relation to thewords that precede or follow it.

SYNTAX

粤语：你瘦过我。/你走先。

普通话：你比我瘦。/你先走。

SYNTAX

粤语：你瘦过我。/你走先。

普通话：你比我瘦。/你先走。

leaveYou

first

thinYou I am

Contextual clues in words

sad

hurdle

Context

hurdle

hurdles

Phonics –44

English Words

Spoken Written

24 consonant sounds 21 consonant letters

20 vowel sounds 5 vowel letters

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44 speech sounds 26 alphabet letters

a l

mb

n

o

p

q

r

t

s

u

c

v

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

w

x

y

z

bl

fl

cl

br

sl

pl

cr

gl

fr

dr

gr

pr

tr

sc

sm

sn

sw

tw

lf

lk nd

ld

lb pt

xt

mp

sk

sp

st

dd

gg

ll

nn

lm

ln

lp

lt

ct

ft

nt

ss

tt

zz

ff

ck

ng

sh

th

nk

th

ai

ea

ay

ee

i-e

ie

o-e

y

igh

oo

ew

u-e

ue

oo

aw

or

au

al

ir

ou

ur

er

ow

oi

air

oy

are

oa

ore

ear

a-e

oe

ar our

oor

ure

eer

ere

ch

er

a

b

c

d

e

f l

g

h

i

j

k

m s

r

q

p

n

x

w

o

v

u

t

y

z

/æ/

/b/ /h/

/ l /

/ //k/

/e/

/f/

/z/

/j/

/ks/

/w/

/v/

/t/

/s//m/

/n/

/r/

/g/

/p/

/kw/

/d/

/k/

/ i/ /Λ/

/ dз/

ac t

p

m

r

a t

a t

a t

eb g

it p

or b

uh g

a tfl

fl i p

ac mp

or mp

Initial blends

Final blends

Double consonant sounds

Digraphs

eb ll

ob ss

ish p

is nk

ai

ay

a-e

t eaPhonograms

mai

ays

Initial blends

Final blends

Double consonant sounds

Digraphs

a ebl m

a esh k

24 consonant sounds

20 vowel sounds

Brother, father

Toefl , fancl

Tackle

Towel, hostel

Fast

Clerk

Got/pot

Little, litter

head, again

Quay

Three, tree

Forever

Coconuts

Of, off

sharpener

magnet

croissant

muesli

practised

basket

Wasted

method

beat bit

sad sat

home, aim

chef ,example

fat, Wednesday

clap , egg, leg, hand

market, again,

umbrella

plumber, bomber

moon book

knife, knob

caught, lounge

Debt, sharpener

their, aeroplane

flour, flower

tortoise

MELS introduces…..Six essential parts in English language learning

A to Z-Words & Images

-Words & Sounds

-Words descriptions

-Phonics sounds (Single letters)

BASIC READING-Words & meanings

-Basic reading

-Responsive conversations

-Phonics (CVC)

CRITICAL READING-Words & meanings

-Critical reading

-Phonics (Phonograms)

-Expressive conversations

-Grammar

EXPRESSIVE LEARNING-Words & meanings

-Contextual reading

-Responsive conversations

-Phonics (Blendings)

COMPREHENSIVE READING-Words & meanings

-Critical reading

-Phonics (Phonograms)

-Expressive conversations

-Grammar

SYNTAX-Words & meanings

-Sentences reading

-Form sentences with words

-Non-phonic words

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