Literacy and Student Agency: Building Evidence-based Practice with ClassWork

I love the way you’ve used templates so that the students aren’t overwhelmed by the number of pages in the thumbnail view. It also allows them to build their own journey / resource.

Thank you for sharing this. The conversations around how this can be adapted to a range of classrooms throughout the session were inspiring. From a secondary context, the reading journals flow well into wide reading, particularly in 7-9 but I also am excited to incorporate the templates into literacy activities for upper secondary. They allow students to have autonomy and agency over their learning.

Thank you for the inspiration to create templates that allow students to pick their path for their learning - I am excited to get back to Te Ākau ki Pāpāmoa primary school to share this with our staff and to give it a go with my learners.

adding student and teacher voice with the stickers takes me back to Classwork in distance learning, students loved checking to see what we had to say from the comfort of learning in their own home.

Thanks for sharing… such a great resource and the way you use templates to avoid overwhelming students is so good. I can’t wait to adapt for my year 5 and 6 students.

What an amazing resource , I’m wondering how we can utilise these in our own school with local narratives which in turn allows students to document a portfolio of their learning which would be awesome for them to share their learnings with their whānau. I really liked the two tone process that allows student agency and although a simple effective tool of stickers from a teacher and an opportunity for self reflection.

This is an amazing resource and plan for students to showcase their ideas and have the ability to reflect on their learning. I love that all students would be able to access the learning based on their abilities.

Thank you Phill, for an excellent workshop. I am particularly excited to share the book club template with the 5/6 teachers at my sites- the teacher/student colour coding of pages is genius, and the self-assessment sticker audio is such a quick and effective idea for exit ticket. Thanks again.

It has been very exciting to see how I can use workbook templates in the classroom to provide my learners with a unique experience with the same chapter of the same book! At TGS we always say not every child needs every programme and this encompasses this phrase beautifully, let's personalise the experience in every aspect.

This resource is absolutely brilliant and seems very beneficial for reading groups. I love the element of the students being able to select their own task. There is also a great deal of versatility in the different activities.

I wonder if it is possible to incorporate activities relating to Kaplan’s depth and complexity to allow the extensive students an opportunity to dive deeper into texts?

Thank you for sharing this amazing resource.

My favourite part of the workbooks are the templates that students can add as they go. This allows for scaffolding and an appropriate level of cognitive load. #mesmerising

I love the flexibility and student choice built in to using these workbooks. Having the pages as templates is a great idea. I'd love to add in some spelling templates and visible thinking routines as templates rather than have separate documents but also worry that the templates may become too numerous and overwhelming. In looking forward to tinkering.