My Literacy Journey

By bexg4
  • Period: to

    Literacy

  • Playschool

    Playschool

    "I don't think my mommy knew she had to buy me a book!"
  • Dunce

    Dunce

    The alphabet
  • Tinker & Becki want to know everything!

    Tinker & Becki want to know everything!

  • The drawing on a very expensive book episode

    The drawing on a very expensive book episode

  • The Congo

    The Congo

  • Bliss the magazine and the dog

    Bliss the magazine and the dog

  • Ghost stories and other things I wasn't supposed to write about

    Ghost stories and other things I wasn't supposed to write about

    Ghosts in the girls toilets
  • YAM YAM

    YAM YAM

    Becki's yam yam alphabet. BCD dialect is not considered to be of high prestige. In fact Ed Conduit refers to it as a dialect associated with ‘rough manual work’ and also ‘poor education’ (2007:2).
  • The Lord of the Rings

    The Lord of the Rings

    Welcome to the world of fantasy!
  • Titanic the story that I never wanted published

    Titanic the story that I never wanted published

    School magazine- prestige
    Would you like your story published?
    errrr, no. Not really!
  • Swearing and voilence- How to grab a teenagers attention.

    Swearing and voilence- How to grab a teenagers attention.

  • What do you want to be when you're older?

    The time I told my teacher I wanted to be a writer....and was shot down!
  • English Literature

    English Literature

    A- Level Lit
  • Las Gaviotas- The beginning of a canarian guancha

    Las Gaviotas- The beginning of a canarian guancha

    Problemas con la 's'. Realising that the ability to speak a language does not always transfer directly into the ability to write in the said language. disparate acquisition.
  • The start of Literacy from a different perspective

    The start of Literacy from a different perspective

    So, I'm pretty good at English BUT how the hell do I teach it?! Discovering the importance of phonemic awareness!
  • Bilingual acquisition- what's the plan then?

    Bilingual acquisition- what's the plan then?

    My research into language acquisition. Is it possible to accelerate biligualism if the level of input is altered?
    Can a 'receptive bilingual' become an 'ascendant bilingual' *? *According to Gass (2008:27) this is “someone whose ability to function in a second language develops due to increased use” or need to communicate in the said language.

  • Excuse me, where are you from?

    A very confused accent- except for in the company of Hannah! Reverting to a yam yam....
    Codeswitching
  • Learning Arabic

    Learning Arabic

    Starting to understand, for the first time, how difficult it can be to learn an alphabet with a non-alphabetic script and vice versa. Harmer (2007:325) states that “Writing communities frequently obey different punctuation /layout conventions which are usually non-transferable”. *p.s Leila and Majnun (Leila and the madman)
    Arabic version of Romeo and Juliet- One of my favourite stories in English GCSE.
  • Julia Donaldson

    Julia Donaldson

    Literacy from the beginning again!

  • The Future

    Family Literacy.
    assessment frustration-
    “Writing for writing or writing for learning?” (Harmer 2007:330)