Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Literacy as pleasure

Using the enthusiasm of ICT to encourage learners in literacy!!

http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/literacy-digital-communication.htm

3 comments:

  1. Students showed a high level of engagement when a visiting author encouraged them to change the size, colour and style of the text to reflect the words being used: for example, “enormous, blue eyes.”
    This gives me an idea to try sometime this term. I wonder if changing the font etc on interesting words will encourage children to include more words???

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  2. AnonymousJuly 27, 2011

    I thought that as well changing font colour, size or shape to encourage writing more interesting words in hand written stories as well as typed.

    N Carrington

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  3. Yes I have a few children who started thinking that way when they are writing in their draft books, making shaped words - it does sometimes distract them from the writing though - slows them down. Which is more important - THem enjoying the writing process and taking longer, or them being getting it finished?

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