Heather Durney (3) Children's text goes to school

Quote: "One way to think about home and school is to consider a third space where children can write out their home experiences. This could be, for example, a space where children can choose what they write about, or bring in artefacts from home to write about. The third space has been used to describe the in-between literacy practices of prisoners, who write to the outside world drawing on an in-between space, neither the prison nor the outside world. If this theoretical space is given to children's meaning-making what would it look like? By giving space to children's out-of-school literacies, many elements can come in. Third space theory allows us to think about how children's meaning-making often lies between school and home. Children compose and write in after-school clubs, or with friends, and when they compose at home they are drawing on school stuff and when they compose at school they are using their home experience and practices." (Pahl p. 65-66)

Comment: It took me a while to understand what this was saying but I think that it means children do not make sense of the world either at home or at school but rather they intertwine the two and make connections between the two to figure out the world they live in. We need to create the opportunities for children to make those connections through writing about them because it will help them to understand and apply things they are learning. I love the idea of kids bringing a box full of things from home to write about and create things about.

Question: What is one way that you would use in your classroom to provide this third space for children to draw connections between home and school?