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Literacy is not something to put on an already crowded plate…
Literacy IS the plate!
National Literacy Project
• Non-profit organization dedicated to improved adolescent literacy
• 10 years working with literacy teams and schools throughout the country
• Focus on middle and high school students
• Consistent, school-based support for improved literacy
You don’t have to be sick to get better.
The teacher cannot do it alone; the school makes all the difference.
“An excellent teacher without a well-coordinated program can do only so much. In these situations, even the best of teachers can offer students only isolated moments of engrossed learning and rich experience in an otherwise disconnected series of classes.”
Langer, J. (2002). Effective Literacy Instruction:
Building Successful Reading and Writing Programs. Urbana, IL: NCTE.
Defining literacy
Literacy
Definition (in your own words) Visual representation
Examples Non-examples
Frayer Model
Definitions of Literacy
1600-1900 Ability to sign one’s name to a document and own or borrow books
1930 Functional Literacy – moved to grade equivalents – 3+ years of schooling
WWII era 4+ years of schooling
1952 6+ years of schooling
1960 8+ years of schooling
Late 1970s High school completion
Literate adolescents are those who can read, write, find, present, discuss, think creatively, critically analyze information, and transfer their learning across multiple contexts. These literacy requirements are a far cry from a definition of literacy as basic reading and writing.
Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy
Why does literacy matter?
• …
Literacy for the 21st Century
Abilities required for student success: • Ability to seek information and make
critical judgments about information• Ability to read and interpret many
different kinds of text both in print and online
• Ability to innovate and apply knowledge creatively
Where Literacy is Headed, Kent Williams NCTE Executive Director, September, 2008
21st Century Readers and Writers Need to…
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology• Build relationships with others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and cross-culturally• Design and share information for global
communities to meet a variety of purposes• Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams
of simultaneous information• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media
texts• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by
these complex environments
NCTE
Literary History
• List 2-3 positive or negative reading and/or writing events that affect the way you read and write today:– – –
Important Book
• Write down…– Title:– Author:– 2 reasons the book is important to you:
• •
What makes reading fun?
• …
The Art of Fly Fishing
Learning Something Hard
What Good Fly Fishers Do
• Relax• Feel the force• See the big picture• See what trout see• Always cast to a target• Wade safely• Never stop practicing
What Struggling Fly Fishers Do
• Avoid it• Blame other
factors• Rely heavily on
others • Refuse to try
anything new• Persist in images
of failure
What Doesn’t Help
• Tell me how but don’t show me how
• Tell me to try harder
• Encourage me to practice the same ineffective skills I already use
• Show me posters that highlight skills I don’t understand
• Give me mnemonics to help me remember what I don’t understand
What Does Help
• Motivation• Visualizing success• High expectations• Explicit instruction• Modeling• Guided practice• Independent practice
An Instructional Model
What does this have to do with reading?
What Good Readers Do
• Plan for the demands of different kinds of text• Make connections with prior knowledge• Evaluate understanding of the ideas in the text• Make inferences• Visualize• Ask questions• Determine what is important• Decipher the meaning of unknown words• Organize knowledge• Create connections between reading and writing
Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy, p. 59
What Struggling Readers Do
• Avoid reading
• Blame other factors
• Rely heavily on others
• Refuse to try anything new
• Persist in images of failure
What Doesn’t Help
• Tell me how but don’t show me how
• Tell me to try harder
• Encourage me to practice the same ineffective skills I already use
• Show me posters that highlight skills I don’t understand
• Give me mnemonics to help me remember what I don’t understand
Read between the LinesRead
between
the
lines
to
understand.
What Does Help
• Visualizing success• High expectations• Motivation• Explicit instruction• Modeling• Guided practice• Independent practice
Instructional Model
What Good Readers Do
• Plan for the demands of different kinds of text• Make connections with prior knowledge• Evaluate understanding of the ideas in the text• Make inferences• Visualize• Ask questions• Determine what is important• Decipher the meaning of unknown words• Organize knowledge• Create connections between reading and writing
Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy, p. 59
Plan for Feedback
• Meet in departments; member of Literacy Team will facilitate discussion
• Provide feedback on– Goal statements– Literacy Action Plan– Strategies
Literacy’s role in effective instruction
• Using Literacy Support in 5 Instructional Modes handout…– Underline descriptors of your teaching in
both columns– Read across the row completely– Self-assessment
PAS
• Preview the text and critical vocabulary
• Access prior knowledge
• Set the purpose
P: Preview the text
• Examine– Titles, headings and subheadings– Introductions and summaries– Bulleted lists– Pictures, captions, charts, graphs and
illustrations– Print in special type
P: Preview critical vocabulary
• Focus on understanding
• Examine vocabulary conceptually
• Use the words daily
• Post words around the room
Text Structure and the Struggling Reader
• Kinds of text they read
– Magazines
– Others …
Students should be reading…
• Textbooks
• Informational text
• Abstract, symbolic stories and poems
• Sophisticated diction
• Complicated syntax
Cumulative Experience
Words heard 1 hour 100-hr week
5,200-hr year
4 years
Welfare 616 62,000 3 million 13 million
Working class
1251 125,000 6 million 26 million
Professional 2153 215,000 11 million 45 million
Prefixes
• Anti- against• De- opposite• Dis- not, opposite of• En-, em- cause to• Fore- before• In-, im- in• In-, im-, il-, ir- not• Inter- between• Mid- middle• Mis- wrongly
• Non- not• Over- over• Pre- before• Re- again• Semi- half• Sub- under• Super- above• Trans-across• Un- not• Under- under
A: Access prior knowledge
• Identify the topic
• Think about what you already know about the topic
• Write or discuss what you know about the topic
S: Set the purpose
• Understand the assignment
• Read and analyze comprehension questions before you read the text
• Analyze text structure
• Read for different purposes