'Creating in Reading' R.P.I. 08/08/2025

 'Creating in Reading' R.P.I. 08/08/2025

Kaupapa and Shared Pedagogy

Dorothy explored the importance of creativity and how it can be expressed in a variety of forms. Of course, 'Create' is a foundation goal of the Manaiakalani programme:

Here is an excellent acronym to remember when planning/using creativity in the classroom:

I'm very keen to incorporate more project-based learning into the classroom as this will enable students to be more creative.

Explore

Next, we each created a slide, including a sound link to our recitation of a text:

It was great to see such a variety of creativity from everyone and this exercise was a good reminder of how such a simple creative task can produce effective results. 

Why is creativity so important?

Kiri then talked about the importance of creativity as a response to reading. This graphic is a great summary of the different creative modes and this is important to remember in order that every student has the opportunity to express themselves in a way that suits them.

And of course, let's not forget the value that digital tools have in the world of creativity!

Create to show learning

Next, Naomi took us through 'Using create to show learning from reading texts. This graphic has excellent information re planning such activities:

We then got shown many resources such as stencils and graphic organizers which will certainly come in handy for lessons.

We then created a short activity:

A one shot film approach

Next, I made this video (but couldn't upload it to the shared drive):

Metamorphosis

Longer create-to-learn teaching

We then looked at different ways to plan for longer texts. There was much valuable information in this session:

The three activities I learned to do today that I'm keen to use a.s.a.p. are:

• using a slide with a background and text and a sound icon of the student reading the text
• using a slide with a background and a video of a student doing a movie review
• the short slide activity

Today had a phenomenal number of fabulous lesson and planning ideas and we moved at a fast pace so I'll have to revisit the slides.