Text+Orientation

Text Orientations are all about story telling and ensuring that all learners are on the same page, with the same 'field' knowledge, before they begin to engage with the written text.

When teachers do a text orientation, one of the most common observations is how engaged the learners are, of all ages. It is a very engaging technique.

Although it is an oral story tell, one of the aims is to embed some key vocabulary from the text into the text orientation so that the learners begin to hear the language and during the sequence they keep returning to it. What are your techniques for remembering what it is you really wanted to foreground as you do the story tell? Perhaps people can upload their TO plans to this page so we can see a few different techniques

Here is Megan's Text Orientation for Mem Fox's //Feathers and Fools//. For more information see Lesson Sequences.