#NZraAnnual2

Thanks to Anna Tate at St. Joseph's in Fielding for hosting 2 really energised chats last week. It really kicked off our #NZreadaloud for Term 2 in an exciting way. As you can see from Anna's welcome tweet, we had 37 people reply and introduce themselves. The kids' Tweets show they have taken on board the appropriate way to write a tweet when we are all using one class account. One thing we want to promote in our chats is the involvement of the teachers. As you can see from this example below, when we reply personally and finish with another question, we invite conversation which hopefully leads to deeper thinking and critical thinking. The BEST thing though is when the students understand that replying to someone is really what we want from a Twitter chat. As you can see from the examples below, one question results in a response which can then be responded to by someone else who then asks another question. This is the exciting stuff! The example below shows how when WE pu...

  There are Conversations and then there are CONVERSATIONS Hello, my name is Kurt and this other guy next to me is Oliver. We think that the Conversation Game text is really interesting because you get to hear stories and learn about how to make good conversations with someone. By playing this game, we will also learn how to ask good questions and dig in deeper to see how people are feeling. This really helped us because when we converse with each other we often ask how the other person is feeling and after reading the text we realised that we are not  always really interested in the answer.   So if we ask a question of someone and they say good we should ask another question to strike up a conversation and then listen to the answer, really listen. This text also helped us to be more aware of what each other are saying, so now when people say “I’m good.” We say, what do you mean by “good?”  Then this continues and opens up the conversation.   This is w...

Here is a connection that one of our classmates made with his family after reading 'Conversations Games' By Sophie Rea 🎮🃏  Play The Game! 🃏🎮 A reflection on how the game went for me. "The questions I asked based on the text sparked conversations for my family and myself. I began the conversation by asking a question of my family at dinner time. It started the conversation based around each others day.  It was good because we could connect with each other about our day. We had a good long conversation over dinner and we had a lot of conversations throughout the time at the dinner table. After dinner, I felt like I connected with everyone at the table. We started to sit on the couch and continued our conversations before we went to our bedrooms to do what we normally do. We watched a movie then played on the Nintendo Switch together as a family. It was really fun and now we do this nightly because we all enjoyed it.  This was the first time we had conversations about ou...

 I hope this text helps to create some great conversations in your classroom!  It would be interesting if you could reply to this post by answering some of the questions on the image. Maybe you can use a question to start a conversation here!  AND you might like to share your 'algorithm' when you have thought about it.

  The wait is over! The suspense is no more! Here are the 6 texts that have been selected for #NZraAnnual2