Question: English Directed Tasks 1 and 2
Observe two Literacy Hours: one taught by the school literacy co-ordinator and one by the teacher in your base class. If possible, observe one where the focus is on reading and one on writing.
Make note on the following:
How the session is structured. Does it follow the model on page 9 of NLS Framework for teaching folder? If not, how has it been adapted, and why?
What activities the children are engaged in. How does each contribute to the children’s literacy learning?
Observation of lesson by the school’s literacy co-ordinator
Answer: The school’s literacy co-ordinator teaches the reception class at ….. and so I was very keen to see how she structured her lesson. Not surprisingly, the teacher stuck closely to the literacy hour in a lesson that focussed on rhyme, in particular nursery rhymes. Looking at page 19 of the NLS the lesson dealt with the first point on the list of phonological awareness, phonics and spelling. That of one: to understand and be able to rhyme through: recognising, exploring and working with rhyming patterns, e.g. learning nursery rhymes; extending these patterns by analogy, generating new and invented words in speech and spelling....(short extract)
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- Subject: PGCE
- Course: PGCE
- Level: Degree
- Year: Graduate
- Mark: 66%
- Words: 811
- Date submitted: July 07, 2009
- Date written: April, 2005
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1792
