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How to catch a star by oliver jeffers6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Instead of focussing on an overarching theme and selecting texts in response to that theme I am now selecting a text and basing our literacy centres and supplementary texts on our main focus text.Īs this week was the first week back I decided to use quite a simple text from a much loved author in our classroom, Oliver Jeffers. This term I have slightly diverted from my theme focus to a text focus. It's a teething process with endless ways of doing things, however I can without a doubt see the value of the P3 reading process. I have had (and continue to have) many struggles with implementing 元 in my classroom. ![]() The whole class focus on a particular theme has also seen a deeper understanding when it comes to topic specific vocabulary, which is particularly noticeable in their writing. ![]() Following a theme has allowed my students to really immerse themselves in a topic. ![]() I have absolutely loved using this structure in my classroom. Our literacy centres have been loosely based on theses theme and where possible I incorporate the weekly theme into other KLAs. With each theme I have selected different texts to use as our 元 Procedure Three texts, as well as supplementary texts for students to read independently or to be read as Procedure One texts. For the majority of this year I have had a fortnightly themes, such as the zoo, magical creatures, dinosaurs (just to name a few). ![]()
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