Might be a thought – check how I get on over at my blog!

I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned it before, but after starting a shared class blog at the beginning of the year, we set up a blog for each of our literacy/reading groups. I would post a question or discussion starter each week for the children in the group to respond to. This week we’ve started trialling each student in the group taking turns to post the question/discussion starter for the others to respond to, thus trying to encourage some conversation between each other before they come to the readers’ circle later. It’s a bit of a shaky start, but I think it will be good.

In the meantime, the class blog’s become a little stale. Hopefully we’ll revive it with the posting of the podcasts we’ve been hoping to do and have finally started recording. They’re proving to be a fantastic way of teaching factual recounts through the Talking and Listening strand of English – not to mention that they had to write and edit a script – now there’s some worthwhile and purposeful learning in English!