Literacy Professional Learning Resource – Teaching Strategies

Literacy to Learn: Getting students knowledge ready for literacy learning

Literacy to Learn 3 - Transcript

Voiceover: A third aspect of ‘getting knowledge ready’ is guiding the students to align their existing knowledge with the text that they will read.

Voiceover: Look at how Petrina does this for the text ‘Women in ancient Egypt.’

Teacher: When we look at the text, what do we notice about it? How is the text organised?

Student: Subheadings

Teacher: Can you give me an example of one of the subheadings?

Student: Rights and privileges

Teacher: Very good. So ‘rights and privileges’. So how do we know it’s a subheading? What makes it a subheading?

Student: The subheadings aren’t as big as the actual heading

Teacher: So if we look at the title, we can see the title is in large type, where the subheading is a little bit smaller. But it’s still not as small as the information, but we know it’s a subheading because it’s a little bit bigger.

Teacher: What sort of clues do the subheadings tell us about the topic?

Student: Such as ‘wealthy women’s like a summary of the information. So mostly that information is about wealthy women.