2019 Southland Literacy Symposium  

Workshop Feedback 
 
“Developing Oral Language to Support Children’s Reading & Writing”
Shona Willis

● Really enjoyed the presentation. Went away with ideas to implement into my programmes. Thanks
so much Shona.
● Thank you for sharing your school’s Oral Language “ALL” program. Great details and resources that
I can look into further. Elaine McPherson
● Great ideas to help improve vocab and oral language in the classroom. Thanks for sharing.
● Very engaging, a lot of wonderful commonsense information & ‘take home points’ - thank you very
much. (Great speed of presentation & clear speaking.)
● Thank you so much this was a fantastic workshop. I have some wonderful ideas to bring into the
classroom - sentence stems, encourage talk in all lessons, talk tasks, noting down new vocabulary
and reinforcing new vocab. Loved the front loading vocab for writing.
● I’m going to look at the frameworks you created and doing more specific oral language teaching &
learning in my classroom. Thank you :)
● What a fantastic presentation. Great ideas to takeaway. Key ideas. Relevant to all areas. Thank you
:)
● Excellent presentation.
● Excellent workshop, great presenter & presentation. Emphasised many DATs and accelerated
learning strategies. Great to hear about your journey at Mataura.
● Great workshop - thanks for sharing.
● Thoroughly enjoyed this workshop. Gained a lot of knowledge which could be put into the classroom.
Would be interested in gaining further information - thank you! I will send an email to you at the
address provided.
● Really relevant - covered all curriculum/age levels. Practical, good ideas to trial.
● Pecha kucha sounds like a valuable resource.
● Great ideas & I’m going to follow your ideas and put into classroom.
● Well organised & planned. Always good to hear about teachers’ practise & what they’ve learned.
Some good ideas around what & how. Thanks for sharing.
● Great ideas Shona. I’m going to use Pechakucha. Thank you.
● Great ideas and strategies for oral language and the importance of it.
● Some good take away points. Will introduce sentence stems.
● Thank you for sharing your ‘Oracy’ journey. Enjoyed how you integrated technology to encourage
speech through visual images. Fab ideas :)