[Oz-gifted] Picking your brains

[Alison Miller]

no idea,but some students like garfield the cat,for puns,or cartoons??
alison
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ellen Hrebeniuk" <ehrebeniuk at optushome.com.au>
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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 6:47 PM
Subject: [Oz-gifted] Picking your brains


>L has started Year 1 and has the same teacher as last year, a woman 
> who understands him very well.  We're planning to meet in the next 
> week or so (along with the literacy teacher and school counsellor) to 
> work out a rough plan for him this year.  She has asked him to 
> provide a list of topics in which he is interested, so that she can 
> integrate them into the curriculum somehow.
> 
> She's pretty sure he'll be using a self-paced computer program for 
> Maths, but Literacy is a bit of a puzzle.  L is a fluent reader with 
> a vast vocabulary, but doesn't have the knowledge base for much yet. 
> For example, he can certainly read the old joke "Doctor!  Doctor!  I 
> feel like a pair of curtains!" but doesn't understand the punchline, 
> even though he laughs.  He understands puns, but is unable to create 
> them.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas for literacy activities that their 
> children have enjoyed at about 8yo standard?
> -- 
> Ellen Hrebeniuk
> Sydney, Australia
> 
> Being a librarian is how you change the world.
> Nancy Pearl
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