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Advancing Literacy: Literacy & Learning in ALL Classrooms

Advancing Literacy: Literacy & Learning in ALL Classrooms. A Professional Development Workshop Presented by the Center for Adolescent Literacies March 31, 2011. Putting this into perspective. What are some of the challenges students in your classes face with regard to literacy and learning?.

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Advancing Literacy: Literacy & Learning in ALL Classrooms

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  1. Advancing Literacy: Literacy & Learning in ALL Classrooms A Professional Development Workshop Presented by the Center for Adolescent Literacies March 31, 2011

  2. Putting this into perspective

  3. What are some of the challenges students in your classes face with regard to literacy and learning? Think Aloud Discuss

  4. Struggling Readers, The Big Ideas • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRMa6etnSI Setting the Stage

  5. Tonight’s Agenda

  6. Six different workshops • Four scheduled during each of three sessions • Decide now on your first and second choice for each session • Write those down in your program or planning sheet About Tonight

  7. The Power of Pre-reading: “Reading is an active process and that activity starts long before you turn the first page of the book” (502) • Let's Give Them Something to Talk About: Implementing strategies to engage students in conversation and higher-level thinking (504) • On Your Mark, Get Set, Go: Literacy Strategies To Get Students Off on the Right Foot (529) • RAFT: A Lifesaving Device for Writing in the Content Areas (531) Session One

  8. Discussion in Social Studies and Science through Multiple Genre Texts (502) • Improving Comprehension through Math Strategies (504) • On Your Mark, Get Set, Go: Literacy Strategies To Get Students Off on the Right Foot (529) • RAFT: A Lifesaving Device for Writing in the Content Areas (531) Session Two

  9. Discussion in Social Studies and Science through Multiple Genre Texts (502) • Improving Comprehension through Math Strategies (504) • The Power of Pre-reading: “Reading is an active process and that activity starts long before you turn the first page of the book” (529) • Let's Give Them Something to Talk About: Implementing strategies to engage students in conversation and higher-level thinking (531) Session Three

  10. Let the PD Sessions Begin!

  11. Wrapping up the Workshop

  12. What are some key ideas you might use in your classroom? • Any new strategies? • Any new technologies or websites? What did you learn tonight?

  13. We will send you emails with the following: • A link to a brief program evaluation survey. Please take one minute and complete this. • A certificate of participation. Take this to your district for CEUs. • Information about upcoming events After tonight

  14. This summer the Center for Adolescent Literacies is hosting a workshop for educators on integrating technology into teaching. Here are the tentative dates: • Tuesday-Thursday, July 19-21, 2011 from 9 a.m. to noon Technology & Teaching Workshop

  15. You can follow the Center’s projects on the Internet: • Our web home: http://literacy.uncc.edu • Follow us in Twitter: @literacyuncc • Find us in Facebook: • Adolescent Literacies Group • Center for Adolescent Literacies Facebook page • Email us: bruce.taylor@uncc.edu Keeping in touch with us

  16. Any questions?

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