sorting OUT

The 'Sorting Out' phase's purpose is to:

• provide students with various means of processing and representing information and ideas arising from the finding-out stage
• allow for a diverse range of outcomes
• encourage students to begin to apply and transfer some of the information they have gained to a range of tasks or contexts
• develop skills in the arts, mathematics, language and technology
• assist students to explore some of the feelings, values, and attitudes associated with the topic
• create concrete records of experience and information gathered through the arts, mathematics, language and technology
• encourage students to review what they know as a group

Student Questions

• What information is relevant to my question?
• What parts support my answers?
• How does it relate to what else I know?
• Does it raise new questions?

Through English:

- Writing using a range of texts types:

- Personal/Technical descriptions, recipes, directions, reviews, scientific reports, explanations, instructions, manuals, diaries, personal recounts, stories, fables, fairy tales, poems, letters, advertisements, charts, scripts, banners

- Build a story

- Compare and contrast

- Data charts

- DRTA (Directed Reading and Thinking Activities)

- Oral Presentation

- Told Us…Made us wonder

- Written conversation

- Wall stories and charts

- Read and retell

- Three level guide

- Poetry

- Bookmarking

- Puzzle cards

- Readers’ Theatre

Through Dance and Drama:

- free movement, freeze frame, mime, the conscience game, puppet plays, role play, talk shows, simulations

Through Media and Visual Arts:

- collage, dioramas, models, visual artwork, diagrams, using fabrics, making videos, multimedia presentations, mobiles, radio plays, thaumatropes

Through Mathematics:

- classifying, fact finding, graphs, maths projects, maps, problem solving, scale models and drawings, timelines, venn diagrams

Through Music:

- chants, raps, round the campfire, soundscapes, composition, musical stories