My Year 11 inquiry group are currently in the middle of researching different materials that could be used for their design ideas of chairs.
So far we have read about different types of wood - blog post here - I took the information from the original source, chunked it and presented it to the students in a different way. We looked at some of the words from the text so they had some definitions to start them off and then they did information transfer and answered specific questions. They then related what they had read to their own design work. This exercise was done in the class but by themselves, in their own time.
We next looked at types of metal - blog post here - We read directly from the source material on the internet this time and I read it out to them while they read along at the same time. They had to write down words that they did not know and we looked these up together.
I asked them for feedback about the two sessions and they liked a mix of the two. So for this session I have tried to combine what we have been doing over the past two weeks.
- I took words out from the reading to start with so they could have some definitions to start them off.
- I have taken the information form the original source and chunked it.
- Each piece of reading on the presentation has a yellow box on the outside of the slide so they can note down any words they are unsure of.
- The text was read to the class again, but this time it was done by our guest reader.
- We then talked about what words they had noted down.
- The class then had to answer the information transfer questions.
- They then had to relate what we had been reading about to their own designs.
Our guest reader was Ms George. I had been telling her about last week when it was me reading the information about types of metal and trying my hardest to make it sound interesting. She is an extremely experienced teacher of English and has lots of experience reading to classes. She agreed to come and read about plastics to put emphasis and interest into how it was read out.
When Miss George left after the reading, the students gave me feedback that they preferred her reading to mine. I need practice!!
Here are some examples of student work form today. They have had copies made so student names do not appear.
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