When the author gives us a clue about what’s coming in the story.īy ‘powering down’ into everyday explanations for a new term (“the shadow of what is to come”) and then back up again into the technical term (“Let’s say that word together: foreshadowing”) students’ understanding of new vocabulary is being built in the course of classroom dialogue around the text. If you hid around the corner with the sun behind you, I wouldn’t be able to see you, but I might see your shadow, so I would know that a person was there. They’re like the shadow of what is to come. All those little clues that Paul Jennings gave us are called ‘foreshadowing’. He’s giving us a clue – isn’t he? – that the resolution has something to do with the sea. They provide the following example of an interaction that develops student understanding of metalanguage through a study of Paul Jennings’s ‘Nails’ (1990):
Parkin & Harper (2019) describe building students’ understanding of increasingly sophisticated vocabulary through ‘powering up and powering down’. At the same time, the teacher may introduce unfamiliar language that relates to the analysis of the media reporting (tone, alliterative, stress, trope, rhythm, rhetorical). This language tends to be abstract: it can relate to themes or content contained in the target text or be metalanguage (language about language) associated with literary analysis.įor example, students involved in the study of news media are likely to come across abstract language found in news articles (revolution, government, justice, legality, human rights, multicultural). Learning in English often includes conceptual language. Word and concept sorts (reading and viewing)Ĭonceptual vocabulary development (reading and viewing).Shared and modelled reading with think-alouds (reading and viewing, speaking and listening).Semantic ambiguity instruction (reading and viewing, writing).
Modelled word solving (reading and viewing).Connecting grammar and the text being studied (reading and viewing).Conceptual vocabulary development (reading and viewing).
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