Kath Murdoch: The role of text consumption, critique and composition in inquiries in the 3-6 classroom.

Description

Due to current COVID-restrictions on travel into WA from Victoria, this PL will now be provided by Kath Murdoch as an online workshop. The content for the day remains the same. Participants will receive a log-in link prior to the event. 

As we inquire, the information we encounter is in the form of some kind of text. This might be an image, a podcast, a website, a book, a diagram, an artwork, a piece of music, a spoken story - anything that communicates ideas that contribute to our exploration of our questions.
 

Inquiry-based teachers not only help children learn to access a range of texts as they explore but teach them HOW to critique and meaning-make as readers, listeners and viewers. Similarly, journeys of inquiry inevitably mean that children are composing and producing texts to share their thinking. Inquiring into HOW to produce those texts in effective ways for real purposes and audiences can become a wonderful ‘layer’ in the integrative inquiry experience. Whatever they are inquiring into, learners are always building their capacity as readers, viewers, writers, speakers, and listeners. This may be attended to in a ‘stand-alone fashion (viewers i.e. –learning how to inquire into a picture book, learning how to inquire into the way words are spelt) or carefully woven into the planning for an integrative inquiry. Texts are also used as powerful provocations to stimulate wonder and invite deeper thinking. In turn, a journey of inquiry can help learners see the power of texts to influence others and stimulate action.
 

In this workshop, Kath will be taking a deep dive into the role of texts in an inquiry classroom. Highly interactive and practical, teachers will walk away from the day with new ways of thinking about adding ‘literacy value’ to the work they do as inquiry teachers and/or a stronger inquiry stance to their work in literacy... Immediately transferable to the classroom, the texts and techniques shared in this session will help you build a culture that supports meaningful inquiry every day.

Kath’s workshop will be structured as follows:

8.45: Zoom room opens for participants to join

9-10.30am: Session 1

11-12.30: Session 2

Lunch time during which participants can arrange to come back into the Zoom room to chat with others if they wish

1.30 -3.00pm: Session 3

3 - 3.15pm: Kath will stay in the Zoom room for informal Q & A for anyone who wishes