Literacy+Resources


 * Find Literacy Resources here that have been used in our classes. Please add a comment on how you have used it **

Room One at Gordonton School uses a variety of resources from the internet in its' regular classroom programme. The current programme of learning can be found on the classroom wiki. Examples of literacy tasks have been:
 * [|Book reviews]
 * [|Author studies]
 * [|Use of digital learning objects]

Persuasion Maps The link to the Persuasion Map website = http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/ I used this particular map because it promoted higher order thinking. The students could see that they needed to support their opinions on controversial issues from the connected text diagrams in the Map. This, combined with a good research skills on the Internet, lead to some excellent arguments in classes (e.g. hard issues/viewpoints on Moots like "Everybody should donate blood" and "NZ needs Capital punishment"). Of course, everyone needed to know how to structure a good argument prior to using this tool. B.Moore FIS