As part of our Technology PD on Literacy, our literacy coordinator, Marc Milford, has been taking us through some reading strategies. This is a key part of the inquiry focus and goals for the school and cluster which is around reading.
Marc shared a template that he has been using in the maths department where they took the problems apart and transferred the information into a grid. He wanted us to have a go at using this method with our subjects. As my Year 11 and Year 13 students are mostly at a point in their project work where they have to find information about different materials that they could use in their designs, this was a perfect topic to use.
As I have previously done a lot of work involving SOLO Taxonomy and writing, I decided to structure my reading exercise around SOLO too.
Link to document - the last page was added in response to feedback from Marc as he wanted links to key words and visuals. The Y13 class did this exercise today without the last page and it was added for the Year 11 group later in the day.
Some feedback that I received from one of the Year 13 students was that i need to improve the last two columns so the instructions are clearer. (the purple columns). This is where I am wanting them to apply what they have been reading to their own design ideas. She was correct. I do need to structure and support those two parts better with more and clearer steps / questions.
