Implementing an Integrated Literacy Block (K-3)
Presenters: Jean Rice & Bruce Shortland-Jones - Click on image to view Presenter's bio's
| Date: | 29 July, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Location: | Esplanade River Suites 112 Melville Parade Como |
| Info: | Recent innovative international and national system-wide initiatives designed to improve literacy teaching, and student literacy outcomes, have incorporated the design and implementation of an Integrated Literacy Block as a major classroom instructional strategy. The purpose of the Integrated Literacy Block is to ensure all students engage with all areas of literacy learning and teaching on a daily basis over an extended period of uninterrupted time (ie, between one and a half to two hours each day). The daily Integrated Literacy Block sessions are designed around an agreed instructional framework. This framework provides classroom teachers of all year levels the flexibility to develop and implement a range of formal and informal literacy teaching strategies. The learning activities integrate all the areas of literacy instruction and meet the specific needs of their students. Click here for detailed overview. |