Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. Some literacy experts say that reading itself should be redefined. Interpreting videos or pictures, they say, may be as important a skill as analyzing a novel or a poem.
NML is a research initiative within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program.
A Dramatic Reading of Adolescent Literature
J. Lea Smith and J. Daniel Herring
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and
see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and
studies the masters. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.
William Faulkner
To meet the challenge of attracting middle-level students to the literate
life, language arts educators focus instruction on process. This design
creates a learning environment where students, along with their teacher,
construct literacy as they participate in authentic acts of reading,
writing, speaking, and listening. The pivotal instructional components —
reading workshop and writing workshop — immerse the adolescent
learner in 1) regular chunks of time to write and read, 2) self-selection
of writing topics and reading materials, and 3) meaningful dialogue with
peers and teacher (Atwell, 1987). Within this context, a fire is kindled to
ignite adolescents to write during writing workshop and read during
reading workshop.
Some cool simulations, lessons, ideas.....notice the links on the left-hand navigation under "Interactive." Does require Flash plug-ins.
The teachers' guide to this new website explains that it is designed to be a space where young refugees and migrants can improve linguistic and digital literacy. It is also designed to be a space for interaction, conversation and community. Young people from around Australia (and the world) are welcome to use the site to communicate with each other, share stories and practise language in context.
Open resource center and community for early literacy educators. A nice
wiki with all kinds of resources.
We've been reading and learning about different kinds of poetry so we couldn't wait to write our own. To top it all off, now we get to READ our poetry to you! Wouldn't you love to hear a poem created by your student right now? Well, you can! Just click on the audioblogs below. Happy listening and don't forget to post a comment!
Free-Reading is an ongoing, collaborative, teacher-based, curriculum-sharing experiment. We're looking to provide a reliable forum where teachers can openly and freely share their successful and effective methods for teaching reading in grades K-1.
Our premises are:
* The research on how students learn to read is well-established.
* The research on which instructional techniques work is well-understood.
* The voices of those who know what works best -- the classroom teachers -- are rarely heard in instructional design.
* The power of "we" is far greater than the power of "you" or "I."
A "best practice" guide from the Institute of Education Sciences. This guide offers five specific recommendations for district administrators to develop practice and policy options related to literacy and ELL instruction in elementary schools and indicates the quality of the evidence that supports these recommendations.
This web site focuses on children's books, particularly those of interest to
9-12 year olds. Parts of the site are highly interactive, but limited to
students whose teachers include it in their classroom program. The rest of
the site includes databases of book titles indexed in many different ways.
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Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. Some literacy experts say that reading itself should be redefined. Interpreting videos or pictures, they say, may be as important a skill as analyzing a novel or a poem.
NML is a research initiative within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program.
The teachers' guide to this new website explains that it is designed to be a space where young refugees and migrants can improve linguistic and digital literacy. It is also designed to be a space for interaction, conversation and community. Young people from around Australia (and the world) are welcome to use the site to communicate with each other, share stories and practise language in context.
Open resource center and community for early literacy educators. A nice wiki with all kinds of resources.
We've been reading and learning about different kinds of poetry so we couldn't wait to write our own. To top it all off, now we get to READ our poetry to you! Wouldn't you love to hear a poem created by your student right now? Well, you can! Just click on the audioblogs below. Happy listening and don't forget to post a comment!
A "best practice" guide from the Institute of Education Sciences. This guide offers five specific recommendations for district administrators to develop practice and policy options related to literacy and ELL instruction in elementary schools and indicates the quality of the evidence that supports these recommendations.
This web site focuses on children's books, particularly those of interest to 9-12 year olds. Parts of the site are highly interactive, but limited to students whose teachers include it in their classroom program. The rest of the site includes databases of book titles indexed in many different ways.
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