The Big Six

The Big Six Information skills holds great appeal for me because of its organisation and sub- skills under each one. They then can be marked up together easily with the toes of technology skills which the students needed to develop. It also ties in perfectly with a program of teaching comprehension which we have been using at school. The DRTA - direct thinking reading activity uses meta cognition and modelling from teachers to teach students how to learn which complements the big six perfectly. A clear scaffold which can be used across allKLAs is ideal for students and teachers who can use the same language and terms to help students learn how to learn.