Video: Jointly Constructing a Text in Class

This fantastic instructional video shows literacy expert Joanne Rossbridge, as she fosters a critical conversation to jointly construct a text with a Year 5/6 class, and speaks to the value in empowering students to have the tools to talk about language. The text is based on a video dramatisation of 'first contact', on the My Place website, in which the interaction is depicted between two children; a British Marine and an Aboriginal girl. The video is supporting material for PETAA Paper 196: The critical conversation about text: Joint construction, written by Joanne Rossbridge and Kathy Rushton.