The document discusses a pedagogy for teaching English language skills to young refugee students. It aims to develop students' academic literacy through explicit instruction in various text types and their features. Key components of instruction include scaffolding language structures and text features, situated practice engaging with texts, and metadiscussion comparing first and second languages. Ongoing habits to develop language skills involve reading practice, vocabulary building, journaling, games, and family support for home language development. The pedagogy also considers issues like selecting culturally sensitive tutors and providing cross-cultural communication training.
The document discusses scaffolding literacy instruction for English language learners. Scaffolding involves providing resources to help students engage with classroom language and texts, and guides them toward independent language use. It is not focused solely on language games or explicit skills instruction. Scaffolding is necessary because teaching involves initiating students into new practices through modeling, guided practice, and scaffolded activities to help students recognize patterns in content and learning. Key scaffolds include pre-teaching vocabulary before shared reading.
Emotive language uses loaded words to subtly influence listeners' thoughts and beliefs. Speaking in the first person makes audiences feel personally involved by using pronouns like "I", "we", and "our". Repetition emphasizes ideas so the audience better understands and remembers the message. Poetic devices like simile and metaphor provide vivid mental images for listeners by comparing one thing to another.
The document provides guidance for tutors on how to scaffold assessments for students who need urgent help completing an assignment that is due the next day. It recommends establishing the task demands, planning what the student must do, scaffolding the next step, monitoring progress, and communicating with the student and teachers. A multi-step process is outlined that involves reading the task, creating a checklist, developing a timeline, providing examples, gathering ideas, composition assistance, and discussing next steps. Scaffolds like annotated texts, word banks, mind maps and column guides are suggested to help students through each part of the process.
The document provides instructions for creating a storybird account and beginning a narrative. It prompts selecting a narrative, emailing the website for access, then receiving an email inviting you to continue the story by selecting pictures and text for what comes next. Once satisfied with the work, the story can be passed back to the website to continue collaborating until the story is finished.
The document discusses various strategies and approaches for effectively teaching literacy skills to refugees and students, including scaffolding instruction, modeling practices, and developing metacognition through reflective thinking exercises. It also outlines different tutoring types, the context framework for understanding communications, and a teaching and learning cycle for developing literacy and language skills.
The document discusses a pedagogy for teaching English language skills to young refugee students. It aims to develop students' academic literacy through explicit instruction in various text types and their features. Key components of instruction include scaffolding language structures and text features, situated practice engaging with texts, and metadiscussion comparing first and second languages. Ongoing habits to develop language skills involve reading practice, vocabulary building, journaling, games, and family support for home language development. The pedagogy also considers issues like selecting culturally sensitive tutors and providing cross-cultural communication training.
The document discusses scaffolding literacy instruction for English language learners. Scaffolding involves providing resources to help students engage with classroom language and texts, and guides them toward independent language use. It is not focused solely on language games or explicit skills instruction. Scaffolding is necessary because teaching involves initiating students into new practices through modeling, guided practice, and scaffolded activities to help students recognize patterns in content and learning. Key scaffolds include pre-teaching vocabulary before shared reading.
Emotive language uses loaded words to subtly influence listeners' thoughts and beliefs. Speaking in the first person makes audiences feel personally involved by using pronouns like "I", "we", and "our". Repetition emphasizes ideas so the audience better understands and remembers the message. Poetic devices like simile and metaphor provide vivid mental images for listeners by comparing one thing to another.
The document provides guidance for tutors on how to scaffold assessments for students who need urgent help completing an assignment that is due the next day. It recommends establishing the task demands, planning what the student must do, scaffolding the next step, monitoring progress, and communicating with the student and teachers. A multi-step process is outlined that involves reading the task, creating a checklist, developing a timeline, providing examples, gathering ideas, composition assistance, and discussing next steps. Scaffolds like annotated texts, word banks, mind maps and column guides are suggested to help students through each part of the process.
The document provides instructions for creating a storybird account and beginning a narrative. It prompts selecting a narrative, emailing the website for access, then receiving an email inviting you to continue the story by selecting pictures and text for what comes next. Once satisfied with the work, the story can be passed back to the website to continue collaborating until the story is finished.
The document discusses various strategies and approaches for effectively teaching literacy skills to refugees and students, including scaffolding instruction, modeling practices, and developing metacognition through reflective thinking exercises. It also outlines different tutoring types, the context framework for understanding communications, and a teaching and learning cycle for developing literacy and language skills.
The document provides guidance for incorporating Storybird, a digital storytelling tool, into various subjects across the curriculum through activities like selecting genres of pictures, books, films and other media to explore; having students develop characters, plot and conflict; and creating prompts to elicit creative student responses. It also offers tips for linking Storybird to procedural writing, listening and viewing skills; and designing collaborative group activities and games. Teachers are encouraged to adapt these activities based on grade level and integrate Storybird into existing lessons on genres, characters and creative writing.
The rabbits were looking for shelter from an approaching storm and went to ask their friend Tom if they could stay at his house. Tom agreed and the rabbits helped with chores like hanging laundry in exchange. Little rabbit enjoyed staying at Tom's cozy home, where they read books while their mother knitted. They threw a birthday party for the littlest rabbit. Eventually, the rabbits' mother decided she preferred living outside again, so they thanked Tom and returned to their rabbit home, remaining good friends.
This document provides statistics and facts about the Refugee Advice and Support (RAS) program from 2007 to 2010. It discusses that in 2007, the program operated in 4 schools with 36 tutors supporting 60 students, of which 87% improved significantly. In 2008, the program expanded to 9 schools with 82 tutors supporting 216 students. The program continued expanding in 2009 to include a new university partner and to support 239 students across 10 schools, with 91% showing significant improvement. By 2010, the program involved over 70 tutors in 14 schools. Overall, the partnership facilitated over 10,000 hours of additional support for students since 2007. The document also discusses the challenges refugee students face and the need for holistic support approaches in
The document provides guidance for tutors on supporting students who arrive with an assessment due the next day. It advises tutors to establish the demands of the task, plan what the student must do, scaffold the next step, monitor the student's progress, and communicate with the student and teachers. It then outlines specific steps tutors can take to contingently scaffold students, including reading the task, creating a checklist, developing a plan and timeline, providing examples, scaffolding information gathering, monitoring composition, and discussing revisions.
This image sequence provides simulated examples for a traditional narrative by selecting images from StockArt.com illustrators such as Pascal Campion, Paul McEwan, and Sybille Hähnig to represent the beginning, middle and end of a story. The names of the illustrators are below each image to credit the artwork and provide similar images for users to create their own text-based narratives.
Molly always felt scared of the dark, but her dad was always there for her. They enjoyed doing things together like going to the park, where they would meet Molly's mom for lunch. Molly was sad when she found herself without her family one day. She went to the park, thinking of happy memories, and was lonely for a long time. Eventually, Molly met someone at the movies who made her feel happy again, and she thought she had found someone with whom she could start her own family.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against developing mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
This document outlines a syllabus for an English ESL unit focusing on developing cultural knowledge through texts. It includes 14 student outcomes addressing skills like comprehending relationships between texts and contexts, identifying intertextual relationships, and analyzing the effects of technology on meaning. The syllabus then provides a 4-week plan involving activities like analyzing related texts and films, writing blog posts, and engaging with online resources to meet the outcomes through developing cultural and linguistic understanding. Formative and summative assessments include blog contributions, worksheets, and deepening understanding through additional activities.
This document is an educational resource from World Vision about migration. It contains a crossword puzzle related to migration with clues about different populations that have migrated to and within Australia at different time periods, including refugees from conflicts in countries like Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The document also references Australia's White Australia policy and post-World War 2 immigration policy of "populate or perish".
This advertisement is trying to convince people to become foster parents. It uses images of a heart and smaller hearts inside to symbolize having room in one's heart for foster children. The text asks if the reader has room in their heart for more than one child and provides a phone number and website for more information. It emphasizes the support and training provided to foster parents to make it seem like a generous opportunity. The goal is to make the reader feel involved and want to participate in fostering.
The devious fox hatches a plan to hunt a big fat pig by blending in with a flock of sheep. His plan works and he is able to carry the pig home to eat. After resting, the fox goes for a walk and encounters a goat looking to bash him, so the fox gets what he deserves.
A lonely raccoon named Elvis sits in the woods and stares at the moon. A neighbor tells him the story of three angry bears leaving behind a gold honey bottle. Elvis gets the idea to find the bottle to become rich. Though he searches his kitchen and the desert, he remembers throwing the bottle out and races to the trash pile to search through the garbage. When he doesn't find it, he runs around crying, realizing the bottle is lost forever.
The document discusses different levels of writing ability for refugee students learning English. It outlines goals for students at each level related to mechanics, grammar, revision, and text types. It then describes levels of communication ability, language structures and features, and strategies students can use at different stages of writing development. The levels progress from basic symbols and copying, to writing various texts with cohesion and control over organizational features.
This document is a crossword puzzle about migration to and within Australia. It contains clues about different waves of migration to Australia such as the transportation of convicts from 1788-1868, migration during the gold rush in the 1850s, and refugees from countries like Vietnam and Pakistan between 1975-1985. It also includes clues about internal migration within Australia like the movement of workers from Melanesia to Australian plantations and the migration of Czech people to Australia in 1968. The crossword clues span Australia's history and cover economic migrants, refugees, and involuntary migration through transportation.
Malcolm and his friend Dusty like to dance together, but one day they are no longer around Joe, another monkey. Feeling lonely, Joe goes to ask other animals to play but Jake refuses. Joe then sees a group of animals having fun on a train. Meanwhile, Malcolm also feels lonely without Joe and decides to go find him. Joe asks Paul the animal if he can play, and Paul agrees, saying he saw Joe playing hide and seek with a tiger. Malcolm gets scared for Joe until they find him safe with the tiger Luke, playing hide and seek with all the other animals.
Living and working in the community unit of workViviana Mat
This document outlines a unit of work for an English as a Second Language (ESL) course focusing on texts used in the community and workplace. It includes details about the module, elective, assessment tasks, and rationale for the teaching approach. The unit explores different types of workplace and community texts, requires students to analyze and compose various text types, and involves a games-based learning activity where students create a PowerPoint presentation. The goal is for students to understand how language and texts communicate within specific social contexts.
The document provides an overview of the ESL Scales resource, which was developed in Australia to assess and track the progress of ESL students. It describes the history, rationale, significant features, and application of the Scales. The Scales focus on oral interaction, reading/responding, and writing skills. For each skill area, there are guidelines on communication, language/cultural understanding, language structures, and strategy use. Teachers can use the detailed criteria and benchmarks at each level to consistently evaluate students and identify needs.
This document provides an outline for a 10-week English (ESL) unit for Year 11 students focusing on the theme of Changing Perspective. Key learning activities include analyzing two prescribed texts, developing essay writing skills, and using digital tools like podcasting and Glogster for assessment tasks. Students will explore how perspectives can change due to personal history and culture. Assessment includes a speaking task in Week 9 and an essay response in Week 10.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document provides information about the listening exam for an ESL English course. It discusses the exam format, including the time allotted, number of readings of the text, and time for writing. It describes the skills tested in the exam such as understanding the purpose and structure of the text. Different types of questions are outlined, including literal, inferential, and analytical questions. Suggestions are provided for how students can prepare for the exam, such as practicing listening to different audio texts and learning language techniques. Sample exam questions and responses are also included to demonstrate strong and weak answers.
The document provides guidance for incorporating Storybird, a digital storytelling tool, into various subjects across the curriculum through activities like selecting genres of pictures, books, films and other media to explore; having students develop characters, plot and conflict; and creating prompts to elicit creative student responses. It also offers tips for linking Storybird to procedural writing, listening and viewing skills; and designing collaborative group activities and games. Teachers are encouraged to adapt these activities based on grade level and integrate Storybird into existing lessons on genres, characters and creative writing.
The rabbits were looking for shelter from an approaching storm and went to ask their friend Tom if they could stay at his house. Tom agreed and the rabbits helped with chores like hanging laundry in exchange. Little rabbit enjoyed staying at Tom's cozy home, where they read books while their mother knitted. They threw a birthday party for the littlest rabbit. Eventually, the rabbits' mother decided she preferred living outside again, so they thanked Tom and returned to their rabbit home, remaining good friends.
This document provides statistics and facts about the Refugee Advice and Support (RAS) program from 2007 to 2010. It discusses that in 2007, the program operated in 4 schools with 36 tutors supporting 60 students, of which 87% improved significantly. In 2008, the program expanded to 9 schools with 82 tutors supporting 216 students. The program continued expanding in 2009 to include a new university partner and to support 239 students across 10 schools, with 91% showing significant improvement. By 2010, the program involved over 70 tutors in 14 schools. Overall, the partnership facilitated over 10,000 hours of additional support for students since 2007. The document also discusses the challenges refugee students face and the need for holistic support approaches in
The document provides guidance for tutors on supporting students who arrive with an assessment due the next day. It advises tutors to establish the demands of the task, plan what the student must do, scaffold the next step, monitor the student's progress, and communicate with the student and teachers. It then outlines specific steps tutors can take to contingently scaffold students, including reading the task, creating a checklist, developing a plan and timeline, providing examples, scaffolding information gathering, monitoring composition, and discussing revisions.
This image sequence provides simulated examples for a traditional narrative by selecting images from StockArt.com illustrators such as Pascal Campion, Paul McEwan, and Sybille Hähnig to represent the beginning, middle and end of a story. The names of the illustrators are below each image to credit the artwork and provide similar images for users to create their own text-based narratives.
Molly always felt scared of the dark, but her dad was always there for her. They enjoyed doing things together like going to the park, where they would meet Molly's mom for lunch. Molly was sad when she found herself without her family one day. She went to the park, thinking of happy memories, and was lonely for a long time. Eventually, Molly met someone at the movies who made her feel happy again, and she thought she had found someone with whom she could start her own family.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against developing mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
This document outlines a syllabus for an English ESL unit focusing on developing cultural knowledge through texts. It includes 14 student outcomes addressing skills like comprehending relationships between texts and contexts, identifying intertextual relationships, and analyzing the effects of technology on meaning. The syllabus then provides a 4-week plan involving activities like analyzing related texts and films, writing blog posts, and engaging with online resources to meet the outcomes through developing cultural and linguistic understanding. Formative and summative assessments include blog contributions, worksheets, and deepening understanding through additional activities.
This document is an educational resource from World Vision about migration. It contains a crossword puzzle related to migration with clues about different populations that have migrated to and within Australia at different time periods, including refugees from conflicts in countries like Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The document also references Australia's White Australia policy and post-World War 2 immigration policy of "populate or perish".
This advertisement is trying to convince people to become foster parents. It uses images of a heart and smaller hearts inside to symbolize having room in one's heart for foster children. The text asks if the reader has room in their heart for more than one child and provides a phone number and website for more information. It emphasizes the support and training provided to foster parents to make it seem like a generous opportunity. The goal is to make the reader feel involved and want to participate in fostering.
The devious fox hatches a plan to hunt a big fat pig by blending in with a flock of sheep. His plan works and he is able to carry the pig home to eat. After resting, the fox goes for a walk and encounters a goat looking to bash him, so the fox gets what he deserves.
A lonely raccoon named Elvis sits in the woods and stares at the moon. A neighbor tells him the story of three angry bears leaving behind a gold honey bottle. Elvis gets the idea to find the bottle to become rich. Though he searches his kitchen and the desert, he remembers throwing the bottle out and races to the trash pile to search through the garbage. When he doesn't find it, he runs around crying, realizing the bottle is lost forever.
The document discusses different levels of writing ability for refugee students learning English. It outlines goals for students at each level related to mechanics, grammar, revision, and text types. It then describes levels of communication ability, language structures and features, and strategies students can use at different stages of writing development. The levels progress from basic symbols and copying, to writing various texts with cohesion and control over organizational features.
This document is a crossword puzzle about migration to and within Australia. It contains clues about different waves of migration to Australia such as the transportation of convicts from 1788-1868, migration during the gold rush in the 1850s, and refugees from countries like Vietnam and Pakistan between 1975-1985. It also includes clues about internal migration within Australia like the movement of workers from Melanesia to Australian plantations and the migration of Czech people to Australia in 1968. The crossword clues span Australia's history and cover economic migrants, refugees, and involuntary migration through transportation.
Malcolm and his friend Dusty like to dance together, but one day they are no longer around Joe, another monkey. Feeling lonely, Joe goes to ask other animals to play but Jake refuses. Joe then sees a group of animals having fun on a train. Meanwhile, Malcolm also feels lonely without Joe and decides to go find him. Joe asks Paul the animal if he can play, and Paul agrees, saying he saw Joe playing hide and seek with a tiger. Malcolm gets scared for Joe until they find him safe with the tiger Luke, playing hide and seek with all the other animals.
Living and working in the community unit of workViviana Mat
This document outlines a unit of work for an English as a Second Language (ESL) course focusing on texts used in the community and workplace. It includes details about the module, elective, assessment tasks, and rationale for the teaching approach. The unit explores different types of workplace and community texts, requires students to analyze and compose various text types, and involves a games-based learning activity where students create a PowerPoint presentation. The goal is for students to understand how language and texts communicate within specific social contexts.
The document provides an overview of the ESL Scales resource, which was developed in Australia to assess and track the progress of ESL students. It describes the history, rationale, significant features, and application of the Scales. The Scales focus on oral interaction, reading/responding, and writing skills. For each skill area, there are guidelines on communication, language/cultural understanding, language structures, and strategy use. Teachers can use the detailed criteria and benchmarks at each level to consistently evaluate students and identify needs.
This document provides an outline for a 10-week English (ESL) unit for Year 11 students focusing on the theme of Changing Perspective. Key learning activities include analyzing two prescribed texts, developing essay writing skills, and using digital tools like podcasting and Glogster for assessment tasks. Students will explore how perspectives can change due to personal history and culture. Assessment includes a speaking task in Week 9 and an essay response in Week 10.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document provides information about the listening exam for an ESL English course. It discusses the exam format, including the time allotted, number of readings of the text, and time for writing. It describes the skills tested in the exam such as understanding the purpose and structure of the text. Different types of questions are outlined, including literal, inferential, and analytical questions. Suggestions are provided for how students can prepare for the exam, such as practicing listening to different audio texts and learning language techniques. Sample exam questions and responses are also included to demonstrate strong and weak answers.
This document provides a list of 26 suggested texts related to the theme of "discovery" that could be used for an English teaching area of study. The texts include paintings, poems, novels, short stories, dramas, essays, picture books, and non-fiction works. A brief description is given for each text highlighting how it relates to and explores ideas around discovery, such as depicting scientific discoveries, experiences of discovering new worlds or cultures, rediscovering lost knowledge, or metaphorically representing discovery through dreams or imagination. The document encourages students and teachers to draw from a variety of genres and media that represent discovery in different ways.
The document provides guidance for students on choosing related texts for an Area of Study (AoS) exploration of the theme of discovery. It advises students to select texts from a variety of genres and media that are relevant to discovery. It also lists criteria for making wise text choices, such as choosing a text with a different form than the prescribed text, by an award-winning author, or that avoids overdone or superficial treatments of the theme. Finally, the document outlines various ways discovery could be represented in a text, including discovery of place, self, secrets, or in relationships.
The document provides instructions for a Year 9 assessment task requiring students to write an essay analyzing an issue presented in a documentary studied in class. Students must choose one documentary, identify an issue it explores, and discuss how the documentary composer uses techniques to present their point of view on that issue. Students are to plan their essay in dot points before the due date and hand in the plan with their completed essay. The essay should be a minimum of one page and include an introduction, at least two body paragraphs using a "WHY" structure, and a conclusion. Students will be marked based on their understanding of the issue and techniques, and the structure and language used in their essay composition.
Writing a WHY paragraph- "Go back to where you came from" documentaryViviana Mat
This scaffold can assist students to organise their ideas when writing an analytical paragraph on a documentary (created for the "No Turning back" project)
"No turning back" Project marking rubricViviana Mat
The document provides a marking rubric for the No Turning Back Project that evaluates visual and written content on a scale from A to E. Visual content is assessed on the sophistication and effectiveness of visual choices, while written content is assessed on the appropriateness and control of language used. An A grade reflects sophisticated and seamless use of elements, while an E grade signifies limited and disconnected use of elements with many errors.
"Go back to where you came from" documentary analysisViviana Mat
The documentary "Go Back Where You Came From" uses several techniques to effectively tell a story and influence the audience's perspectives. These include using archival footage to add credibility and context, voiceover narration to guide the audience, and first-hand interviews that provide authentic experiences. Locations were also filmed on-site to connect viewers visually to the actual settings discussed.
"Go back to where you came from" - Documentary questionsViviana Mat
This is a set of comprehension questions related to the use of a documentary to convey refugee & asylum seekers pressing issues on "Go back to where you came from".
"Go back to where you came from" Student essay (3)Viviana Mat
The director uses a variety of documentary techniques to argue that refugees are not illegal and to emphasize the difficult conditions that force people to flee their home countries. He interviews refugees who have experienced war and hardship firsthand and uses statistics and footage to illustrate the dangers in countries like Iraq and the large scale of the refugee crisis. The documentary aims to help viewers understand why refugees risk dangerous journeys to reach Australia and to change negative perceptions of refugees seeking asylum.
"Go back to where you came from" Student essay (2)Viviana Mat
The documentary "Go Back To Where You Came From" aims to build empathy for refugees by documenting their experiences. It uses techniques like interviews, close-ups, handheld camera footage, and statistics to convey the difficulties refugees face both in their home countries and on their journeys to find safety. An interview with a refugee woman who fled violence shows her displaying emotion while recounting her experiences. Footage from a refugee camp demonstrates the challenging living conditions and long queues for inadequate food. Overall, the documentary seeks to educate viewers about why refugees flee and the risks they endure to help audiences become more understanding of their plights.
"Go back to where you came from" Student essayViviana Mat
The documentary series "Go Back To Where You Came From" aimed to build empathy for refugees by allowing audiences to understand the risks and dangers refugees face on their journey to safety. It followed participants experiencing the lives of refugees firsthand and interviewed refugees about their experiences. This gave insight into why refugees flee their home countries and undertake dangerous boat journeys, risking their lives to seek asylum. While some participants changed their views on refugees after learning their stories and hardships, others did not. By experiencing the realities refugees face through this documentary, audiences could gain more understanding and empathy for why refugees feel they have no choice but to seek asylum in countries like Australia.
"Go back to where you came from"- Essay vocabulary (Literacy resource)Viviana Mat
This document provides a list of vocabulary words that are appropriate to use in essays, along with synonyms. The words are grouped into categories such as emotions, actions, viewpoints, and descriptions. Some of the key words included are empathy, problem, beliefs, refugee, attack, understand, allow, good, important, asylum seeker, and footage. The purpose is to help writers choose effective vocabulary when crafting essays.
Go back to where you came from- Previewing activitiesViviana Mat
This document provides pre-viewing activities for students to think about and discuss refugees and asylum seekers before watching the documentary "Go back to where you came from". It includes questions for students to consider their own views on refugees as well as background information on key terms and participants in the documentary who have differing views on refugees and asylum seekers, such as being supportive or suspicious of them. The goal is to encourage critical thinking on this topic in preparation for viewing the documentary.
"Go back to where you came from" participants' journey
1. Track the attitude shift of each participant through the course of his or her experiences. Record key events, comments
and reactions.
Participant
Raye
Darren
Gleny
Adam
Roderick
Raquel
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