Tag: writing

TEACH: Learning outcomes revisited – Writing

Jun 8, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Facilitate, Facilitator, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Learning Outcomes, plan, planning, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach better

We’re in the process of trying to design an online Learning Outcomes configurator. You’ll be able to select all of these options from drop-down menus and create the learning outcomes you want to embed the literacy and numeracy that your learners need into your own context. Until this is online, here’s the manual version. Instructions…
How to write your own learning outcome for embedding writing

Mar 28, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Learning Outcomes, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), outcomes, Uncategorized

You can do this yourself or download the worksheet here. Instructions Choose one item from each box and then add your own context. Write out a final draft of the learning outcome below. If you need to, make any changes to ensure your learning outcome is specific to the writing skills you want to teach and…
Strategy: How to write your own strategy for embedding writing

Mar 25, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Uncategorized

This time you need to create your own strategy for embedding writing into your programme. You can download it here if you need it. Choose one or two items from the box and then add your own context below. Write out a final draft summarising your strategy. If you need to, make any changes to…
Demands: What are some specific writing demands?

Mar 21, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Knowing the demands, Learning Progressions, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, Uncategorized

If you’ve got the hang of the mapping, feel free to skip ahead and get on with mapping the writing demands in Assessment 3. You’re up to section 3.4. If you do skip ahead and you get stuck, you can always come back here and have a look in more detail. Otherwise, we’re going to…
How Do I Improve my Writing Online? Use Grammarly

Feb 5, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education resources, Essay writing, Graeme, Graeme Smith, Grammar, Improving learner writing, This Is Graeme, THISISGRAEME, Uncategorized, Write, Writing, Writing frame

Awhile ago, I wrote about how I was using Hemingway App to improve the quality of my writing. I don’t use it for everything, but still like to use it when I need to sit down and write something that is clear and concise. Recently, I signed up for another product. It’s similar but different……
Developing a Writing Frame For Report Writing

Sep 9, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Improve, Literacy, report, teaching, template, Writing, Writing frame

A while back I redeveloped the writing frame we use to teach people how to write their report for the first part of our course. If you want a better copy of this to print out, there is a PDF version you can download here. I contextualised the writing frame above to the content that we…
How Can I Improve My Writing? Use the Hemingway App

Aug 19, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, App, Approaches, Gear, Graeme Smith, Hemingway, How to improve, Improving learner writing, Literacy, online, tools, Writing, Writing frame

How can you improve your writing? What are some great online tools you can use to improve your writing? Use the Hemingway App…!
Using the online vocab profiler – Part 5 (Sample you can download)

Aug 11, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Vocabulary, Writing

Here’s the last part… You can review how I put together my new vocabulary diagnostic via these links or just read through below and download the sample if you want to modify it. My outline is here. The initial results from the vocabulary profiling software are here. The way that I generated some useable word lists is…
Designing embedded literacy project work for independent learning – revised structure

Aug 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Design, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALNE, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Reading, Reading comprehension, Text, Tutor, Tutor Profile, Writing

Yesterday, I outlined my rough ideas for a generic integrated project template that would bring together unit standards 26622 and 26624 with some kind of narrowly focused content. The purpose is to design an independent learning project template that would help tutors and learners (and in my case home school parents and older home school…
Weekend creativity project – get your writing groove on…

Jun 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Creativity, Writing

The BNZ Literary Awards entries closes off in a couple of days – 11.59 p.m. New Zealand Time on 30 June 2014 to be exact. For those who didn’t even know it was open: The 2014 BNZ Literary Awards is back for its 55th year and now is your chance to get your entry in for New Zealand’s…