Writing: Engaging High Ability Students - VIC program only
Leon Furze
3 Hours
Available all year
Online unmoderated course
This is a free course for all teachers registered in the Victorian Young Writers Program 2023:
This course will focus on the importance of grammar instruction in writing and will cover topics such as language choices, text-level choices, the reader-writer relationship, being an author, and the writing process. The course will also address the Victorian Curriculum (2.0), English, particularly the Language and Literacy strands, but also incorporating elements of close reading of mentor texts from the Literature strand.
Learning outcomes:
- Create effective lessons for teaching writing to high ability primary students
- Support your students to generate and develop ideas for writing projects
- Understand how mentor texts can be used to teach writing to high ability primary students
- Run impactful and engaging group discussions and writers workshops
- Effectively confer with students and provide targeted feedback
- Employ effective strategies for preparing and publishing writing projects
Who should participate?
- Teachers F-6
- Literacy Coordinators
- Gifted and Talented Coordinators
How does it work?
- Individuals: upon registration individuals will be sent a link to access the PL on our online learning platform.
- Group Booking: Schools interested in making a group booking should email us the names, job titles and emails of teachers they want registered.
| Cost of participation |
| Member |
$0 |
| Non-Member |
$0
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Completing this course comprises 3 hours of online professional learning addressing standards 2.1.2 and 2.5.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
Related courses:
Using metalanguage to talk about writing