Strategic sequences for primary readers and thinkers using indigenous texts.

1. Strategic Sequences with
Aboriginal Texts - Primary
Kamloops
Dec 4, 2017
Faye Brownlie
Slideshare.net/fayebrownlie.kamloops.pri.AB

3. The child cannot afford to
waste Eme on leFer-learning
acEviEes or games when he
could be reading well-chosen
books.
Marie Clay, 2005
Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals, Part 2
p121

4. • Students share their connecEons to the story.
• Begin with text to self and work towards text
to text and text to world
Strategies
SEcky note strategy
Quick connecEons vs deep connecEons
Teaching Connections

6. Learning Inten+ons:
1. I can look at a picture and infer what is happening.
2. I can provide because reasoning for my inference.
• Using the picture book Stolen Words by Melanie
Florence
Teaching Inferring Using Pictures

7. What I see (the clues) What I infer (my thinking)

12. Whole Class Lessons Using Big Books
• Work with one or two pages (5-10 Minutes).
• Cover up one or two words.
• Read the sentence together leaving out the missing
word.
• Ask them for all of the possibiliEes for the missing
word.
• Record their suggesEons.
• Try each word they suggested crossing out words that
don’t make sense.

13. The school is so ________.
The hallways are _________ and _________ and
filled with _________ kids he doesn’t know.

14. The Seven Teaching Stories –
Highwater Press