2023 Asia Talks with Oxford - How to share the gift of reading with all your students

Session 1: Digital Storytelling for Inclusive Classrooms by Emily Christensen & Stephen Miles

Storytelling is a powerful and emotional teaching and learning tool. In this interactive webinar, gain access to digital tools and learn how to create learning experiences to captivate students, all while developing their literacy skills. Enhance inclusive learning across different ages and levels using digital storytelling tools, fostering excitement and enthusiasm in our young learners.

Join us and take away a new outlook on storytelling. Leave this webinar with practical ways in which you can incorporate forms of digital storytelling to enhance learning and engagement with Oxford Reading Club’s 5 Steps to Interact with Texts. This approach provides an access point for all levels of language learners and will empower student voices. We cannot wait to meet you all!

Session 2: Mapping Connections on the Reading Journey by Eddy Jones

Books can be ‘Windows, Mirrors and Sliding Glass Doors’ (Bishop 1990)
In every genre of text, readers need to know how to look for signposts, to guide their thinking, and help them to ask the right questions.

Using picture books, we will explore thinking prompts and how they can help readers to use:
1. text-to-self connections and think about how the story is similar to their own life.
2. text-to-text connections to compare what they are reading with related texts, including translanguaging strategies that leverage the reader’s home language.
3. text-to-world connections to ask themselves if the text reminds them of something that has happened, is happening or will happen in the world.
Finally, we will explore connecting learners’ reading experiences with creating roadmaps for their own writing journeys.