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A Conversation Across the Disciplines to Integrate Literacy into Middle & Secondary Classrooms. Drs. Pixita del Hill Prado, Ellen Friedland, & Jevon Hunter Elementary Education & Reading Department. Today’s Charge.
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A Conversation Across the Disciplines to Integrate Literacy into Middle & Secondary Classrooms • Drs. Pixita del Hill Prado, Ellen Friedland, & Jevon Hunter • Elementary Education & Reading Department
Today’s Charge We are seeking to collaborate across disciplines to initiate and continue conversations about content-specific literacy, the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS), and their impact on the development of our pre-service teachers.
Definitions of Literacy In groups of three or four, please share your definition of literacy as it relates to your discipline and describe how you have your pre-service teachers illustrate this definition of literacy in their lessons.
Student Learning Outcomes • Develop an awareness of the importance of literacy skills and strategies that facilitate their • students’ learning of content area material. • Exhibit a working knowledge of a variety of literacy strategies that promote comprehension, • vocabulary development, writing, and study skills that can be incorporated into content area • instruction. • Recognize specific reading problems students encounter related to each content area, such • as specialized vocabulary, difficult concepts, graphic materials and symbols. • Exhibit a working knowledge of strategies to develop students’ higher order thinking skills • such as making inferences, forming evaluations and making critical analyses. • Apply their knowledge to design lessons that incorporate a variety of literacy strategies into • content area instruction. • Demonstrate how to use a wide variety of materials such as trade books, newspapers, • magazines, web resources, and other forms of media in the content areas. • Recognize the wide variety of interests, backgrounds, and abilities of adolescents and know • how to group and adjust assignments for optimal instruction. • 8) Develop strategies that promote responsibility, motivation, and an appreciation for diversity. • 9) Apply informal assessment techniques. • 10) Apply culturally and socially responsive practices in the instruction and assessment of all students. • 11) Exhibit a working knowledge of the Common Core Learning Standards and NYS Learning • Standards.
College & Career Ready:Integrating Literacy into the Content Areas How is literacy already present in the preparation of pre-service teachers at the middle & secondary levels? What central points from A. Botticelli’s keynote address will influence the preparation of pre-service teachers for middle and secondary teaching?
An EDU 416 Example:Reading Standards in History/ Social Studies (RH) Craft and Structure #5
An EDU 416 Example:Reading Standards in Science & Technical Subjects (RST) Craft and Structure #5
EDU 416 Examples Using CCLS http://www.scribd.com/doc/44427285/Text-Structure-Chart
Review of Samples Lesson Plan Structure Guide Reflection Questions Evaluation of Literacy Integration