Ooooh! Orang-utangs or is it Orangutans!

In this workshop we will use the Orangutan as a focus for literacy.

Strategies and tools which engage students in learning more about orangutans will be explored.

It will also include a unit of work focusing on Melbourne Zoo partnership with Debbie Martyr in Sumatra, and the corresponding work by a group of students in Year 4

The best pedagogic tasks involve some kind of information gap -

That is a situation whereby different members within a group, or individuals in a pair, hold different or incomplete information, so that the only way the task can be completed is for this information to be shared.

Visual Literacy - harnessing oral languageTalk is necessary for the task A group task should REQUIRE , not simply ENCOURAGE, talk

Research your topic and make a list of facts Carefully select pictures that match your list. Each picture should contain some information but try to ensure that each

picture is different. Write a short description and paste onto the back. Give students a picture and ask them to work out what information can be

obtained from it. Then turn the picture over to check if they are correct. Discuss what their picture is about with a classmate Depending on the language focus ‘I learnt’ … Each child should have some specific information to be shared.

ORANGS ALPHABET

O R A

NG

U T A

N G

S

List 1. Only great ape in Asia2. Primate3. Ape family4. Scientific name - Hominidae5. Social groups6. Pregnancy and birth7. Behavior - gymnast8. Intelligence - copying9. Intelligence - searching for

things with fingers10. Endangered11. Description

12. Habitat13. Sleeping habits - nests14. Diet - male and female15. Orang housing at zoo16. Species17. Breeding 18. Tracking19. Where found in the world20. In captivity21. Dangers22. Life stages

Should orangutans be housed in captivity?

PERSUASIVE WORDS AND PHRASES I am writing to…. How unfair! Obviously… I believe that…. I am writing because…. ….. needs to be dealt with Surely….. Local people feel that ….. ….. will mean that …. Just think about ….. What will happen if…… Do you want to be part of…….

REHABILITATION CENTRES Shangrila Rosa Ria

Orangutan Centre Sepilok Orangutan

ZOOS

TOURISM

Persuasive writing

PEEL – P - Point or topic E – Elaboration E – Example L – Link to other points or main thesis

Headlines Articles on poster

As bounty hunters with bush knives entrapped them in a circle and moved in for the kill, the only thing this mother orangutan could think to do was to wrap a giant protective arm around her daughter.The pair seemed to be facing a certain death as a gang of hunters surrounded them in Borneo, keen to cash in on the palm oil plantations' bid to be rid of the animals.

Sandwich sentences

Teaching conjunctions

1 child hold a card with a conjunction

Other child says beginning of sentence.

Another one finishes the sentence.

Sentence -phrase- word Look at picture ; discuss; what do you see; what are

you wondering?

Students read accompanying text. Select a phrase from the text that best describes picture or scenario

Then think of or select a WORD that they think best describes it.

Going furtherSurvival of habitats

Wordle