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How does Literacy Affect You and Your Students?

How does Literacy Affect You and Your Students?. Susan Lenski sjlenski@pdx.edu. How’s your stress level Picture of 2 dolphins. Literacy as Priority. Elementary teachers: Comprehension is the goal. Secondary teachers: Reading helps students learn your content

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How does Literacy Affect You and Your Students?

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  1. How does Literacy Affect You and Your Students? Susan Lenski sjlenski@pdx.edu

  2. How’s your stress level • Picture of 2 dolphins

  3. Literacy as Priority • Elementary teachers: Comprehension is the goal. • Secondary teachers: Reading helps students learn your content • Oregon new diploma requirements: essential skills

  4. What is comprehension? The spraggily mog swiffled harborically bemong the stug. • What swiffled? • How did it swiffle? • Where did it swiffle?

  5. Reading is not walking on the words. It’s grasping the soul of them. Paulo Freire

  6. Causes of Comprehension Difficulty • Lack of basic decoding skills and/or fluency • Lack of academic vocabulary • Lack of interest in topic and/or reading • Limited background in topic or overuse of background • Failing to read for meaning • Lack of knowledge of reading processing strategies or failure to use strategies • Lack of knowledge about cultural ways of organizing texts

  7. “I don’t get it!”

  8. It’s All About YOU! • What are your experiences with literacy? • What kinds of reading and writing are part of your life • How can you be a reading role model?

  9. What kinds of texts do you use in your discipline? • (It’s not just books!)

  10. Think about with Texts Science Texts Social Studies Texts Journals Diaries, letters Lab reports Political cartoons Graphs, charts Picture books Data tables, diagrams Newspapers Textbooks Textbooks Internet texts Poetry Video texts, microscope slides Commercials Maps, posters Instructions, directions Informational books Recipes Cartoons, pictograms Billboards, bumper stickers, posters Newspaper articles Lyrics Summaries Internet texts, on-line bios

  11. Think about Texts (cont.) Mathematics Art Charts, diagrams Textbooks Plans, patterns (architecture) Gallery guides Budgets, financial reports Media terms Schedules, time tables Magazines Instruments: seismic, volcanic, etc. Journal articles Instructions, operations Catalogs Historical references Critiques Maps, trend patterns Internet sources Statistics Photos, original art Problems, equations Movies Textbook explanations Symbolic representations

  12. Think about Texts (cont.) Language Arts Spanish (ELL) Textbooks stories Posters Novels Body language Internet sources Idioms Plays Puzzles Poetry Realia Short stories Time tables, menus Diaries, letters Newspapers Zines, graphic novels Computer language programs Newspapers, magazines Environmental print (graffiti) Essays Informational books Picture books CDs that accompany texts Book reviews Text messages, letters

  13. What literacy processes are used? • Turn to the Quick Reference Guide. Skim the list and determine which of these teaching goals are most important in your discipline.

  14. Out of School Literacies • What texts do students read in school and out of school?

  15. Third Space (cont.) • Third space can also be seen as a navigational space, a way of crossing and succeeding in different discourse communities (New London Group, 1996). • Third space is the bringing together of Discourses and knowledges as a productive scaffold for students to learn literacy practices.

  16. Third Space (cont.) • Building bridges is a necessary part of what makes third space because it helps students see connections and contradictions between the ways they know the world and the ways others know the world.

  17. Third Space Examples • Blogs • Wikis • Podcasts • Texting language • Avatars • What else….? Learn about your students’ out of school experiences • Example: Kindergarten—family stories, TV, church (mass). In school, instruction has elements of standing/sitting/choral reading.

  18. Strategy: Question Formulation Technique (QFT) Prompt: Students need to use reading as an essential skill in your classroom. • 1. Produce Your Questions • 2. Improve Your Questions • (We will use Costa’s levels of thinking.) • 3. Prioritize Questions • 4. Use Your Questions

  19. How can you use QFT or Costa’s Levels in your teaching?

  20. Cornell Note-taking • Turn in your book to page 238. • What are your experiences with Cornell Note-taking. • Examples from website. • AVID: Assessing Cornell notes.

  21. AVID Tutorial • Steps in the tutorial process • Before the Tutorial: Content Area Class • Video: Preparing for the tutorial • Itzel’s story • Tutorial Request Form

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