Group Discussion: Workshop task Week 7

Hi Guys,

This week in the tutorial we revisited the four resources model

·         Text User

·         Text Analyst

·         Text Decoder

·         Text Participant

We discussed how to develop children’s reading through sounding out the letters. The evolution with digital media has allowed us to analyse how children read and write what they do and how they do it.

Cueing System: Encouraging students to predict the text

·         Visual

·         Graphophonic

·         Semantic

·         Syntactic

We compared the systatic’s of English in comparison to other languages.

A healthy reader should be able to self correct asking themselves

·         Does it sound right?

·         Does it look right?

·         Does it make sense?

We discussed performance poetry and the use of punctuation in poetry Banjo Patterson’s “Clancy, of the Overflow” was used as an example.

We  watched a video about a text analyst at just age 4 as she was shopping with her father and was upset by the packaging on the girls dolls in comparison to the Superheros.

This week’s activities were to go through two newspaper articles and two cereal boxes.

We discussed cereal boxes and the stereotypes that come with the text on the boxes.

·         Special K is directed towards women and the desire to be healthy

·         Cocopops is colourful and fun for children – just like a chocolate milkshake only crunchy

·         Nutrigrain is for Men or boys who need strength to grow into a man – Iron Man Food

·         All Bran is directed towards middle aged people who need more fibre – asked to “take on the seven day challenge” to eat AllBran for seven days so they build up a routine.

I thought we could blog about our newspaper articles and try to analyse the text of those articles.

Thanks

Heather