Developing Literacy in Diverse Settings

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

Teachers working with students from diverse backgrounds and with high literacy needs can experience tension between quality English teaching and the pressure to narrow curriculum and pedagogy in response to high stakes testing regimes. This workshop showed how the use of 'Identity Texts' that draw on students own stories and performance based strategies can be used to enhance vocabulary, build student engagement and nurture links with community.

Period	27 Oct 2017
Held at	Bankstown Girls High School, Australia
Degree of Recognition	Local

Developing Literacy in Diverse Settings

Description

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Research Outputs

Tell me your story: confirming identity and engaging writers in the middle years

Activities

Poetry, Literacy and confirming student identity

Challenging the dominant culture by developing a creative pedagogy in subject English: Building students' cultural capital and linguistic and cultural resources

Confirming identity: Supporting students to tell and write their stories