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What does it mean to be literate?

What does it mean to be literate?. What does it mean to be literate?. What is the role of literature, grammar, writing, and speaking in secondary English/Language Arts?. Readicide. Readicide : How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can do About It, Kelly Gallagher

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What does it mean to be literate?

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  1. What does it mean to be literate?

  2. What does it mean to be literate? • What is the role of literature, grammar, writing, and speaking in secondary English/Language Arts?

  3. Readicide • Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can do About It, Kelly Gallagher • “The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools” • Test preparation has replaced novels, content-area reading, personal reading • Students can no longer, evaluate, analyze, synthesize: They cannot do higher-level processing in Bloom’s taxonomy.

  4. Readicide • Proposes reinstating SSR: Sustained Silent Reading • Free Voluntary Reading • “Finding the ‘Sweet Spot’ of Instruction” • Provides 101 books high school students love to read

  5. A Few More Good Literacy Reads • Cultural Literacy, E.D. Hirsch • Foundation of knowledge all graduates should possess • To Read or Not to Read, 2007 National Endowment for the Arts • The Knowledge Deficit, E.D. Hirsch • Literacy Through Language Arts: Teaching and Learning in Context, Sharon Murphy and Curt Dudley-Marling • Articles and theory from past 25 years (middle school)

  6. A Few More Good Literacy Reads • Effective Reading Instruction, Judith Langer • Deeper Reading, Kelly Gallagher

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