VO
LU
ME
19
N
UM
BE
R 1
F
EB
RU
AR
Y
20
14
2
The contents of the individual articles reflect the opinions of the contributors and are
not necessarily the policy of the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association.
© Copyright Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA), 2014
Australian Literacy Educators’ Association,PO Box 3203, Norwood, SA 5067
Tel: 08 8332 2845 Fax: 08 8333 0394Email: [email protected]
http://www.alea.edu.au
ISSN 1324–5961
All rights reserved.
Except under the conditions described in the Copyright
Act 1968 of Australia and subsequent amendments, no
part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without
the prior permission of the copyright owner.
Authors retain the right to self-archive the final draft of
their articles in their institution’s e-archive.
Produced by Lythrum Press, Adelaide
Printed and bound in Australia by Finsbury Green, Adelaide
P R A C T I C A L L Y
Send your articles, pictures or ideas to
Margaret Zeegers,Editor, Practically Primary,
Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia
PO Box 663Ballarat Vic 3363
email: [email protected]
Editorial Comment .................................................................................. 3Margaret Zeegers
Conversations and Stories ....................................................................... 4Marion Meiers
Play and Write: An Early Literacy Approach ........................................ 6Leeanne Biordi and Nicole Gardner
Oral culture in the classroom .................................................................. 10Julie Perrin
Text Talk by Children ............................................................................... 11Linda Abbott
Ten things I know about teaching Speaking and Listening … ........... 12Duncan Dewar
Substantive Conversations – The importance of oracy in the classroom ............................................. 13Nikki Arnott
Oral language and The Little Yarra Steiner School .............................. 16Deborah Pepyat
Extending Children’s Vocabulary and Comprehension through Oral and Visual Literacy .......................................................................... 22Victoria Cochrane
Developing Confident Speakers ............................................................. 25Brad Beales
Switch onto Literature .............................................................................. 27Jodie Rowell, Jan Herold, Sarah Darcy and Jannine Nascimento
Going South with Sophie Scott: A journey into oral language ........... 31Nicole Tainsh
Linking Pedagogy: Scaffolding Literacy and First Steps ....................................................... 34Laurel Rodrigues and Bec Smith
Dolphin Tennis .......................................................................................... 37Stephen Cadusch
Postmodernity and oral language learning ........................................... 39Joel Batson
Supporting the oral literacy development of young ESL children .... 42Shuhuan Pang
Text, Twitter and Tweet: ‘There’s an app for that’ ....................................... 46 Sharon McDonough
Text Talk for Teachers .............................................................................. 47
EditorMargaret Zeegers
Associate EditorSharon McDonough
Reviews EditorBrad Beales
Front cover image:Karen Argus
Volume 19 Number 1 ~ February 2014
Oracy