Part 1
Prediction Activity
Relevant link: Teaching Strategies
A Skeleton Text - What is it?
Source: Adapted from Christine Murray - UTS handout
week4 Spring 2013
It refers to
the text that shows the overall outline of a text but has key pieces of
information missing.
For the
literacy activity, students are asked to predict what they think this
information might be.
For example,
a skeleton text contains only the first and the last paragraph, and the words
that signal the key information that the teacher wants students to
achieve/learn.
To draw
whole picture for the text, it requires students having enough knowledge of the
topic to be able to make specific suggestions about topic’s content.
In literacy teaching
of reading and writing, the aim of using the skeleton text is to
engage students in reading the text, not have them produce “correct answers”.
The activity is an opportunity for the teacher to model some of
language/literacy in his/her Key Learning Area/s.
Read more
information on Literacy
Teaching
No comments:
Post a Comment