The Teaching - Learning Cycle

These stages are:

  • Building the context or field - understanding the role of texts in our culture and building shared understanding of the topic
  • Modelling the text (or deconstruction) - the use of mentor or model texts to focus explicitly on the structure and the language of the text, how language choices work to shape meaning, and to build a metalanguage
  • Guided practice (or joint construction) - teachers and students jointly constructing a text
  • Independent construction – students’ independent writing or approximation of the genre

(Derewianka & Jones, 2016; Humphrey, 2017; Humphrey & Feez, 2016)