Four Resource Model
This unit plan will incorporte The 'Four Resource Model' framework which has been broken down into four main concepts. These concepts will help shape the literacy, literature and language lessons. This framework concepts are:
1. Codebreaker
Recognizing and using features such as alphabet, sounds, spelling, conventions and patterns of the text.
2. Text User
Understanding and composing meaningful written, visual and spoken texts from within particular cultures, institutions, families, communities, nation-states etc.
3. Meaning Making
Knowing about and acting on the different cultural and social functions that various texts perform both inside and outside of school. Knowing that these function shapes the ways texts are constructed, their tone, their degree of formality and their sequence of components. Using texts for purpose.
4. Text Analyst
Understanding and acting on the knowledge that texts are not neutral. Texts represent particular views, silence others, influence people’s ideas. Text designs & discourses can be critiqued and redesigned in novel and hybrid ways.
1. Codebreaker
Recognizing and using features such as alphabet, sounds, spelling, conventions and patterns of the text.
2. Text User
Understanding and composing meaningful written, visual and spoken texts from within particular cultures, institutions, families, communities, nation-states etc.
3. Meaning Making
Knowing about and acting on the different cultural and social functions that various texts perform both inside and outside of school. Knowing that these function shapes the ways texts are constructed, their tone, their degree of formality and their sequence of components. Using texts for purpose.
4. Text Analyst
Understanding and acting on the knowledge that texts are not neutral. Texts represent particular views, silence others, influence people’s ideas. Text designs & discourses can be critiqued and redesigned in novel and hybrid ways.