Scaffolding Literacy with Misty Adoniou

Key takeaways from this whole day professional learning session:

• Why don’t students meet year 9 literacy benchmarks – they write as they speak
• By year 9 a student needs a really deep language reservoir – as educators we need to give them the opportunity to fill that reservoir – by giving them more language
• We do the basics well – celebrate that – and move on the the more complex
• Slow down – go deeper – don’t need to go back to basics – need complexity
• Differentiate instruction so all can access same content – rigour