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This resource explores different approaches to literacy teaching, including basic skills in primary school focusing on learning to read, and content-driven strategies in secondary school for reading to learn and writing creatively. It also introduces the BOW (Brainstorm, Organize, Write) strategy for comparing and contrasting topics as well as the Story Pyramid for creative storytelling. Ideal for 1-2 primary teachers and 5-7 secondary teachers.
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PRIMARY Focus on basic skills (learning to read) One to Two teachers Typically enjoy reading Write creatively SECONDARY Secondary: Focus on content (reading to learn) 45 min. class daily, 90 min. every other day Five to Seven teachers Typically DO NOT enjoy reading Multiple genres of writing Secondary Literacy Differs from Primary School Literacy
Compare and ContrastB O W Strategy • The two items being compared are placed in the top two boxes • Students brainstorm what they know about each topic in each box • The information is then organised by placing the similarities of both topics in the overlapping box and what is discrete to each topic in the outer boxes • After the information is organised students write to explain the similarities and differences
Brainstorm Organize Write We want everyone to take aBOW
1.Name of main character 2. Two words describing main character 3.Three words describing the setting 4. Four words stating the problem 5.Five words describing one event 6. Six words describing the second event 7. seven words describing the third event 8. Eight words describing the solution
