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Post by colemanaj1776 on Jan 19, 2016 18:23:18 GMT -5
What is a literacy event-an activity where literacy plays a role, for your content area. My content area is social studies education. Immediately what comes to mind is analysis of primary sources. This activity incorporates critical literacy because students need to get the point of a text and analyze the context and main point of the source.
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Post by katelyn on Jan 19, 2016 19:29:46 GMT -5
Great conversation starter! My content are is English education, and it requires literacy with pretty much every class activity. I think one of the most important literacy events in an English classroom is when a student reads a piece of literature or text, and can find the meaning of it and relate it to their life.
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Post by loganc on Jan 19, 2016 21:15:19 GMT -5
Katelyn, I had the exact same thought! My content area also being English Education, my students will use literacy in everything that they come across but mostly when they are pulling key points from a passage, summarizing or making meaning from a text besides its literal definition. I was thinking more in terms of analyzing a piece of literature so I hadn't thought about using literacy as a tool of relation but very good point!
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Post by sarahaubreyr on Jan 19, 2016 21:33:12 GMT -5
I completely agree with Katelyn and Logan in this because my major is English Education as well. I think it is so important to be able to take a piece of literature and correlate it with an event in their life or finding a meaning of the piece. That's what I love so much about my major is that one sentence can have so many different meanings to so many different kinds of people. Although, literacy is usually in every aspect of my major due to its content. So I feel like it can get lost because of this. This is why I feel it is important to have activities or readings that sometimes have a focus on literacy and what it is so the children know it's meaning. There are just so many aspects to many different subjects I think it is easy for many things to get lost in the learning process.
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Post by daniell on Jan 19, 2016 23:47:03 GMT -5
As another English Education student (I'm sure this must be getting boring to read), I also think everything we'd do would count as a literacy event. However, unlike Sarah, I'm going to say it's important to know the events behind a work. An example I've used a few times is explaining the allegory for Ayn Rand's novella "Anthem" and its themes against the socialist Soviet Union. Students could interpret it how they'd like or relate to its meaning, but it's just as important to know what inspired it. Literature is something that CAN be interpreted a million ways, but sometimes there is a right answer, and through that students are able to gain knowledge of history and different places through the proper context of a piece of literature.
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Post by ashleyygreen12 on Jan 20, 2016 12:01:37 GMT -5
As an English Education major (my content area being English), I think beyond just saying that my student will use literacy in everything, I will push for them to think more creatively in their efforts to become more literate. For example, having them respond to texts by creating posters or videos. Allowing them to turn their poems into spoken word or raps. Promoting literacy in ways that grab student's attention and allows them to learn and have fun.
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Post by kaylynj on Jan 20, 2016 14:37:01 GMT -5
I am also an English Education major and I really enjoyed what you had to say Ashley! Literacy is going to play a major role in our English classrooms and it would be great to push the students to be creative in order to show their understanding of the work we are learning about in class. Students would be able to show their literacy skills in ways outside of the typical reading and comprehension skill set. I agree with all of my fellow English Ed classmates when they discuss just how important of a role literacy will play in our classes when we can take a single sentence and give it so much meaning.
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Post by alexandrajohnson on Jan 24, 2016 17:09:26 GMT -5
As a Biology student I think that literacy plays an important role when we are dealing with scientific modeling. For example, when modeling DNA or RNA synthesis, the students must be literate in what the components of DNA/RNA are and how they pair up together before we are able to actually understand the model itself.
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Post by lexxy95 on Jan 24, 2016 18:22:12 GMT -5
Ashley you hit the nail on the head. I was trying to think of a less boring way to say, "Hi I'm an English Education major too and Literacy is life".. And I was going to say just what you said. Literacy in my content area, of course will be reading and writing, as it will be in every content area, but I would like like to use literacy to transform lives. I want my students to be able to read for understanding, and draw their own ideas and beliefs from it, and apply it to their own lives, even shaping the courses of them. Within literacy, their is power.. We've all heard the saying, "There is power in words," and it's very true. One is able to draw from that what they may. But literacy is literally able to change someone's life..SO that's pretty much what it is in my content area, in a nutshell:) Changing lives with words. Teaching students to acknowledge the power that is literally at their fingertips. Reading, writing, and understanding.
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Post by angelawithee on Jan 24, 2016 20:28:17 GMT -5
I think that for my content area (English Education) literacy is essential in almost every activity. What comes to my mind immediately when I think of literacy is when students are analyzing a text that they have read in order to write a response to a question. For example, students would need to be literate in order to respond to their ideas on who the protagonist of the book is and why they believe this to be true.
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