Book+Raps

=Book Raps =

Book raps are an initiative of the Dept of Education and Training's **Library and Information Literacy Unit**, with discussion points about a topic or book, stimulate classroom activities as well as provide opportunities for teachers and students to share responses and ideas with other schools. Each rap has support material support material which addresses relevant syllabus outcomes and includes collaboratively planned lesson ideas including teaching strategies, proformas for use by students, **[|WebQuests]** and other resources such as special guests available online.

Explore the Raps FAQ on the DET's website.

**What is out there** - explore the **archives** for teaching ideas. They may be at a different stage level, but can be a catalyst. It is worth checking out how the rap process works, and if the raps going around now don't meet your needs, create your own. Link up with another school, build a wiki or a blog, collaborate between schools. You may want to harness the visual grammar of the picture book, while building student competencies in multimodal and digital text creation.

**Share experiences** of a text between different years in the same school, or different schools. This is a great way of connecting kids, enhancing their literacy skills through the work they do together, and harnessing **literacy circles** or the **4 resources model** to create a greater understanding of a text, or how texts work, in a way that stimulates and engages, while challenging students. This is also a way of overcoming students' diffidence about writing, reading and using ICT in a safe and protected fashion.