To date, the wonderful Bonython teachers have met to discuss their goals for projetcs, strategies to achieve these, decide on timeframes to achieve each goal and to plan collaboratively. Learning has been designed using the Placemat and links to First Steps Reading with a cooperative learning flair. Very impressive work to date :)

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We have mapped our reading strategies on the learning by design placemat. So far I have implemented one of the placemats with my class. I found it very useful and the students were engaged and understood what the expected learning was. We began the unit on skimming and scanning by completing a pretest. During the pretest the students were only allowed a specific amount of time to locate information from a text. After we had finished the teaching and learning the students completed the post test, which was the same to the pre test. The results show improvement in most of the students skimming and scanning skills. Some students made a dramatic improvement in their results, going from around 30% to 50%. At the moment I am implementing a second placemat on synthesising. I have found mapping on the placemat really allows students to be engaged and experience one concept in many different ways. I particuarly enjoyed a lesson where the students looked at the visual mode in the text. From looking at the pictures and assessing their features and what the effects where, the students created pictures using some of these techniques. Thanks for the idea Rita! :-)

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