19.4.26 Text selection 

It was interesting to think about text selection in a heavily shared planning environment. We have our overall themes for the term which are broken down into weeks and aligned with the literacy and, for this term, the social sciences curriculum. Teachers then plan all literacy and concept for their given week.

So far in week 1 - Population changes

Texts include a range of visuals and graphics, two videos (the consequences of an ageing population and push and pull factors), two AI generated population demographic readings (differentiated) , and two journals- Level 2, Namesake and Level 3, Home. Our feed & read read-alouds will be from our national library stash which hasn't arrived yet but will be linked to these concepts.

This is a screenshot from part of my teacher workbook text tracker.

I will use the “What is an ageing population?” text as a summariser text using the Shanahan strikethrough method.