Hard at work on Magazine Activity 2014

Gabby working on her article for BITE BACK magazine.

Today's Editorial Meeting

Plotting stories for 'Fuse' magazine with copies of fresh-off-the-presses SQ for inspiration.

At The Coal Face of Journalism

Students brainstorming story pitches at the editorial meeting for activities week 'magazine-in-a-day', today.

Featured: Corey SQ brandishing a copy of the mag.

How to use cartoons to practice English pronunciation - JimStroud

A bit oblique, but an interesting use of animation skills to reflect on the pronunciation of words, which illustrates some of the relationships between different vowel sounds. It's a little naïve linguistically: it's only illustrating five vowel sounds for example, when we know there are many more than that; and the example words don't accurately represent the mapping of sounds to mouth images... see if you can explain how, using your phonetic skillz.



How to use cartoons to practice English pronunciation - JimStroud

Will-I-Am

William, my nephew whose language development A2s have been privileged to hear, is now in his first year at school. Here he's signed his name on his auntie's birthday card. He started it a bit too far right, so he's carried on... above the first four letters. CLA writing development analysis -- go!