Planning for children’s learning in language and literacy

June 14th, 2008 Filed under: Pre-School, University | Tags: children, language, learning, literacy, teaching

Kei te āro/Noticing

While I was looking for a group of children that were showing an interest in language and literacy to observe, I noticed that on a whole the girls in the class seemed to be much more interested in the topic than the boys. Most girls were trying to write their names on art work by themselves while the boys would just take it to a teacher to name. Both the sexes were interested in stories that were read by the teacher but girls spent more time looking through story books by themselves. The boys did however enjoy looking through are space book but spent their time talking about the rockets rather than trying to put a story to the pictures. It is not surprising Read the rest of this entry »

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