Tuesday 1 August 2017

Student Selected Texts


Sometimes opening up the wonderful world of the Internet can be a scary thing to do when we are assigning texts for our students to read.  Many teachers often provide students with a list of online texts for them to "choose" from as their 'student selected text.'  I decided to try something new this term, and I had my students use an online bulletin board called Padlet to record the articles the choose to read.

As part of this particular assignment, the students were asked to choose an animal that migrates that they would like to know more about.   They were then shown the padlet (that was set up ahead of time) and asked to copy and paste the hyperlink to any website they used to locate the information needed to complete their assignment. 



By doing this, I was able to keep track of the articles that my students were using, and they were able to easily share with others in their group who were reading about a similar topic.  They really enjoyed knowing that they had the freedom to explore the internet for their own information to aid in completing the create task of their assignment. 

4 comments:

  1. Hi Angela, I would love to chat with you a bit more about all that you shared around your reading programme, it all sounds awesome!

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    1. Thanks Hayley! I'd love to talk with you about what I've been doing and answer any questions you might have. Just let me know when works for you.

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  2. I am thinking of using Padiet for my Level 2 students (Year 12) next year for their 2.9 assessment (personal responses). How did you start using this in your class room?

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    1. Hi Albert. We love using Padlet around Pt. England for many different reasons. I have used it recently with my Year 4 students as a way for them to respond to some open ended questions while reading a variety of texts. There is a feature that allows you to set it up so all posts go up in columns. I put the question in my post box at the top and I model by putting my name in the title of the post (the kids need to do so as well when posting). You are able to add as many columns as you would like. They are also able to comment on each other's posts which could easily promote a documented conversation with your older students. Hope this helps! If you have more questions, please feel free to ask.

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