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NEW! Action Literacy Classroom Resources for Middle Primary
Action Literacy takes a structured approach to teaching literacy in the middle primary classroom. It incorporates direct instruction, strategy instruction, and inquiry learning through action-based tasks. As such Action Literacy can be said to take a ‘balanced approach’ to the teaching of literacy, with students given the opportunity to build on the skills and strategies taught in direct instruction lessons through open-ended, student-centred activities.
While focusing on the basics, Action Literacy takes a broad, cross-curricular approach that brings together interrelated areas of the curriculum, helping to make learning purposeful and meaningful. Action Literacy is not intended to be a complete literacy program but rather provides a rich set of everyday classroom resources that model a balanced approach to teaching and learning. The scope and sequence charts in the Teacher Guide detail the content of each learning unit, allowing teachers to choose an individual unit or sequence of units that fits with their teaching and learning needs.
Action Literacy is made up of three complementary resources:
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Action Literacy Stimulus Books
The Action Literacy Stimulus Books are rich, interesting and fun!
Students should be encouraged to read the books for enjoyment and interest and not just as a ‘learning task’. Sets of the books can be kept on the classroom reading shelves or in the library with other books and reading resources.
Apart from reading for enjoyment, the Action Literacy Stimulus Books can be used by teachers for many different kinds of activities, not just the teaching and learning units described in the Action Literacy Teacher Guide.
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Action Literacy Teacher Guide
Denny Newburn
The Action Literacy Teacher Guide contains a unit of learning for each of the Action Literacy stimulus books. Each unit of learning contains:
- a summary page with a description of the learning focus, text types, cross-curricular links an activity to set the scene and a suggested way to approach the initial reading of the book
- three detailed lesson plans that form the basis of the direct and strategy instruction
- details of an action-based task that employs and extends the skills and strategies taught in the lessons
- a reproducible worksheet master to support the lessons or action-based task
- a list of suggested assessment opportunities.
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Action Literacy Student Workbook
The workbook contains activities for students to practise basic skills developed in the corresponding unit of work from the Teacher Guide.
These exercises are highlighted in the Primary Teacher Guide with the icon for easy cross-reference. Each double page spread includes an explanation of an aspect of language and literacy and exercises to develop specific skills. The Student Workbook can be used as an integrated part of the Action Literacy materials or separately as a literacy skills builder.
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