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My journey to becoming a K-6 TL.

Explore Discussion Forum 2.3 Searching Scootle

on November 26, 2019

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  1. Type “critical thinking – texts” into the search bar.
  2. Choose English in the Learning Area filter.
  3. Choose stage 2 in the filter.
  4. 11 results appeared.

I found an inquiry unit titled: 1788 Was life the same for everyone? It is quite an extensive unit that would be more appropriate as a collaboration between the class teacher and the teacher librarian (TL). It contains various links to resources, suggestions for questioning and links to online learning tools.

I think the unit is quite difficult for a year 4 level and I would only attempt it if the class were already experienced in guided inquiry methods and learning tools. What I do like is the deep focus on various texts throughout the unit to explicitly give students focus on the topic. The unit explores a range of text tools to create meaning. It is a very thorough unit and you do need to have multiple copies of the text Nanberry by Jackie French.

NSW Department of Education. Scootle. (2019). 1788: Was life the same for everyone? Retrieved from http://e4ac.edu.au/units/year-4/index.html

 


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