By: Ray Mamo 1 2 Journal Prompt By Elizabeth Starting off with a video clip which led to the title ‘Giving is the Best Communication.’ Next came the Workshop by Claire and Amy: ’ R o o m o n t h e B r o o m ’ based on the book by Julia Donaldson. The aim was to create a writing activity through S t o r y t e l l i n g for Grade 3. 3 Workshop 1 Explanation of why use the book ‘ Room on the Broom’. There was a group discussion about a picture with ‘WH questions’. Who are the characters? The Witch, the cat , the dog, the bird and the frog. Quick narration of part of the story until the broom snapped. (The rise in the story line.) 4 Workshop 1 • Activity 1 : Create a Witch’s Broom. • Activity 2: We were divided into three groups to perform three tasks. • Group 1 Witches, Group 2 Designers, Group 3 Authors. • ‘The Witches created a Magic Potion. ‘A beautiful being inside and out you shall become.’ • The Designers were given a pre-writing sheet for the Design of the Broom. (What type of material was used? What size? And what the broom was used for?) • The Broom was named ‘Broomy Zoomy – Red/Black’ 5 Workshop 1 The Authors would present a different ending to the story which ended up by a striking performance wherein we had the Witches mole stuck in the dragon’s throat then…. Obladi Oblada and the dragon was turned into a mouse. 6 Workshop 2 ‘The Great Vacation’ aiming at English Creative Writing. This started off with a Video for the participants to guess the title of the topic which was VACATIONS. Elizabeth and Wendy had a dialogue about different types of Holidays. Disneyland, Camping in Italy, a Beach holiday and a Mountain holiday. 7 Workshop 2 Participants were asked to select flashcards related to the different holidays and fix them on the board. Props were set up in different areas and the participants split into groups. The groups were given a ready-made website taken from weebly.com and where they had created their website called ‘ Holiday Abroad’. 8 Workshop 2 The groups filled up a pre-writing sheet about their holiday abroad and used a cube as a word mat for ideas. They watched the video which helped in the writing Sharing of the pre-writing The actual writing PQPA followed 9 Reading Presentation By Amy Why do children Hate Writing? The main points were: • Make if fun and relevant by using music/ lyrics • Eliminate barriers to writing by creating a word wall, teach the basic techniques, create a personal word list and teach how to use a dictionary • Make expectations known 10 Reading Presentation By Amy Why do children Hate Writing? More points were: • More ideas: provide group writing experiences, give roles, write for an audience • I’m a poet – allow children to explore different types of poetry • Motivate children with music • Provide books 11 Why write Poetry ? by Sandro Spiteri Teach children how to experiment with the pleasure of hearing the sound of words. 12 Acrostic Poem Bird Birds Inside a cage Roar like Dragons 13 Acrostic Poem Bieb Bexxaq u ħares ’l ġewwa Imxi ! Idħol ! Le stenna qabel tidħol Ersaq viċin, ħares sewwa u tkunx Baħnan 14 Copy Change Lellux Kull fejn tħares u tilmaħ Lellux ma kullimkien Lellux ġo nofs is-silla Lellux ... Marija Kullimkien Marija ismagħni Marija titlaqa Marija fejn tlaqtli Marija ġa għidlek Marija għax tlaqt? Marija, Santa 15 Red Red Using Colour Red is the colour of roses that grow in Spring and Summer Red is the colour of sunburn Red is.... Red is.... Red is in my kitchen, a fire in my stove Red is in my head, burning, sending me to bed Red sends me to heaven, to meet my friends- taken Red smells like a cake, my mother used to bake Red’s like no other colour, red is everywhere Red hot, blood orange, red rage, angly bull Red roses, TOO MUCH 16 17
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