This assignment required me to look at two pieces of student writting and Analyise them using VELS and WA First Steps Writing Continuum.
_This essay looks at expressing my developing philosophical beliefs about teaching primary school mathematics. To adequately do this, in this essay I draw on the following things: firstly on my own personal prior experiences with mathematics and how they have affected my attitude towards maths, secondly on the readings that have been provided to me throughout the course of the mathematics subject, thirdly how the relationships I have developed with my peers in this subject have affected my view on things relating to maths, then the various key ideas, themes and activities that we have looked at in lectures and tutorials and lastly how the ideas and perceptions that I had previous to commencing the subject about maths and teaching it have changed or stayed the same and how these ideas will be applied in a mathematics classroom.
_“‘What is the use of a book’, thought Alice, without any pictures...’ ”(Hill) is a quote from Lewis Carroll’s book ‘Alice’s adventures in Wonderland’; these words spoken by Carroll’s young protagonist Alice exemplify the importance of illustrations in children’s literature. For young children like Alice picture books are vitally important as a young child cannot comprehend all the information that is given through the complex text in long novels. Picture books however offer the information that cannot be given through text through the illustrations (Hill). For beginning readers the illustrations can help them understand the story and help them link the text to the illustrations on the page. An example of this relationship between text and illustrations can be seen in the book ‘Olivia forms a band’ by the author Ian Falconer. In this book we can see examples of how illustrations and text work together to enrich the reader’s comprehension and understanding as the illustrations in the book are relevant to the text on the page.
_Literacy involves not just writing but reading and speaking and listening as well and in the early years especially they are all interconnected. This Essay will focus on examining the theory around language and beginning literacy, it will also take a look at theories from researchers such as Vygotsky and Luke and Freebody and the ideas that they developed such as Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development. It will also look at the relationship that exists between oral language and early writing. The last thing that will be looked at in this essay will be my reflection of my learning and of the process of analysing students writing and writing this essay.
_‘Good teaching makes a difference in the lives of young people’ says Pugach (Churchill 2011) and this is true teachers can have a profound effect on the lives of their students and things that they might not even remember doing or had not considered to be an important thing can turn out to have a deep effect on someone. Teachers play a vital role in the lives of many young people and help shape them into the people that they are in the future. An important part of the education is the recognition that teaching and learning are inter-related. There are four threshold concepts to teaching, that teaching is not transmission of
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