When can we begin to be honest about where we are at the moment! The four walls need to be broken down! Read on…. “ Malcolm Gladwell explained during a presentation at the American Association of School Administrators’ 2010 superintendents’’ conference that educators have worked within the safety of four walls that education has erected [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Disciplinary Literacy'
Literacy in Action: Malcolm Gladwell
November 19, 2011 · No Comments · Disciplinary Literacy, Education Reform, learning, literacy
Disciplinary Literacy Part 2
November 15, 2011 · No Comments · 21st Century Literacies, Common Core Standards, connective writing, Content-Area Writing, Disciplinary Literacy
There are different literacy connections within specific content areas that are different from the reading instruction a student may receive in an English or English Language Arts classroom. In content reading our goal is to get students to read primary and secondary sources like an expert would read those materials. We can never assume students [...]
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Disciplinary Literacy
November 13, 2011 · 3 Comments · Common Core Standards, literacy, Literacy in Social Studies
In normal reading development- or in standardized dimension of education- K-2 is the learning to read or the basic literacy stage of reading development. Beginning of the third grade year, students transition from learning to read to reading to learn. The stage of Intermediate Literacy begins as students learn generic comprehension strategies, common word meaning [...]
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Literacy in Action
November 3, 2011 · 3 Comments · 21st century classroom, connective writing, learning, literacy, Literacy in Social Studies
Raw Data Wow! When I open Google Reader, Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter feed I am constantly overwhelmed by the continuous flow of raw data that rushes by like a flood or hurricane passing through- a stream of information that is constant. I too contribute that flow by adding my journalist views. And yet it [...]
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Recommended Readings…….Tools for Disciplinary Literacy
October 29, 2011 · 1 Comment · Literacy in Social Studies
I was just have a conversation about the powerful potential of Twitter in the classroom and today I ran across Using Twitter in High School Classrooms by Bill Ferriter. Great article! If we are going to prepare our students to be effective participants in this changing political landscape, shouldn’t we be showing them how to [...]
