Andrea+Hillbrick


 * Andrea Hillbrick**

Andrea Hillbrick was a guest lecturer who came to present and model some practical classroom ideas which could be implemented in the literacy block. Andrea is an extremely engaging presenter with a wealth of knowledge in the area who displays an obvious and genuine passion for learning and teaching. Andrea has had many years experience in the classroom and also as an Assistant Principal. Below is a link to her website outlining her profile, publications, teaching ideas and professional learning packages. [|http://www.andreahillbrick.com.au/index.html

I have also provided some of the ideas which she presented in her lecture below: This is designed to gain children's interest in a particular book that you are going to introduce them to. The example that Andrea presented was “Shoes from Grandpa” by Mem Fox.
 * Recall Tray**

For this story you could perhaps have the items of clothing that the book refers to for example: Shoes, Socks, Skirt, Bows and Ribbons, Scarf, Hat, Mittens, Sweater By providing these items it also helps the children to recognise the words in the book more easily and predict the text and the language used. For example they may not be familiar with the words mittens and sweater but they may know what gloves and jumpers are then by being able to see these items they can identify with the new words more easily. The Recall Tray is also a good way to develop children's observation skills by removing or covering items and and asking them to say what is missing. Again a way to draw attention and create excitement and anticipation when introducing a new book. This idea simply involves placing the new book in a bag so that it is hidden from the children to create suspense. **Word Splash** Another way of helping introduce children to words and language being used in a particular text. This would be created by the teacher and a way of asking what the children think the story may be about judging from the words on the word splash. You would be wanting the children to make connections with the words and having the words support their predictions about the text. These can be created in Power Point to make it more attractive to look at and then laminated and kept with the text as a resource.
 * Book Bag**
 * Magnifying Glass**

This is designed to help maximise time on task and a way of letting the children know exactly what the lesson will be covering as well as helping the teacher to stay on track! I actually created my own magnifying glass to use for our class presentation on Text Types this is what it looks like (bottom right of the above photo). **Random Input Box** This is designed to help children with their writing and help create ideas for their stories as well as introduce them to new words. Andrea supplied us with 100 nouns which would then be cut up and placed into a box for the children to draw out randomly and use in their writing. Another great idea that Andrea introduced us to was reflection sticks which the children would use in share time to reflect on the class or their day. I also created my own reflection prompts based on Andrea's idea and made a set of reflection key rings which I will now have as part of my own resources. I came up with 12 prompts being: I will now look for more information on... I was surprised by... Today I discovered... Out of 10 I would give this lesson... Something new I learnt today was... I'm still not sure about... I really enjoyed... I would like to know more about... It was hard to... It was fun when... I was good at... The best thing about this lesson was... I then printed the prompts onto coloured paper, laminated them, cut them out and using a hole punch made a hole in the corner so that they could be threaded onto the key rings. We also used these key rings in our student led tutorial and it was a great way of getting feed back from the other students on our lesson. I made six of these key ring sets in total so that each table could have their own set for reflection at the end of the lesson.
 * Reflection Sticks**