LATEST PODCAST, Ep 86: Literacy expert Sharon Callen delves into 'mud mapping' as a way to plan out the teaching of different genres, as a teacher and across a whole school.
Wise planning really is the great secret behind successful teaching and improved outcomes! Literacy expert Sharon Callen delves into 'mud mapping' as a way to plan out the teaching of different genres, as a teacher and across a school.
She chats further about:
- What 'mud maps' are and how they work, and their importance in supporting teachers in their planning
- How to make them connect to your curriculum
- How to set about making one
- What are some of the essential tools to guide your mud mapping
- The incredible role of the mud map in driving unit planning, not just for writing, but for reading, thereby capitalising on the reciprocal nature of reading and writing - so we plan to teach our students about understanding the text type and writing in the text type concurrently.
and much more!
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FEATURED RESOURCES
Teachific
- Mud Map planner
- ACARA Curriculum English planners v9. For an 'easy access' curriculum
Book Stores
- Literacy Continuum by Fountas and Pinnell
- Can Cards by Mike and Linda Dumbleton
- Books by Nell Duke and Beverley Derewianks
- Do You Wonder by Wallace Edwards
Websites
- Poetry Pizzazz by Alan Wright
- First Steps Literacy by Dept of Education WA
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