Weekly Readings

For class Jan 13
• Literacy skills, events, and practices
A-hunting we will go: Johnny Can’t Read, Why Johnny Can’t Read, Literacy messages
Bill Brozo www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6LLPqNLRg
Garcia & Morrell (2013) City Youth and the Pedagogy of Participatory Media

For class Jan 20
• Literacy as a social practice
A-hunting: Hidden curriculum, School to prison pipeline, ephemeral literacies
Litetracy events and practices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHnHgDGCuAI
Kate Pahl (2014) EITHER Materializing literacies in communities: The uses of literacy revisited (read ch. 6), The Aesthetics of Everyday Literacies: Home Writing Practices in a British Asian Household


For class Jan 27
Disciplinary literacy: Shanahan & Shanahan, Moje 2008)
Literacy or literacies? Intro chapter in Knobel & Lankshear (2008), Google


For class Feb 3
Notions of literacy, history of literacy instruction in the content areas (reification)
Why don’t people acquire disciplinary knowledge? (lpp, CoPs)
Chapter 14.pdf (261.71 KB) Pgs. 234-248 (Up to Mushfake) 


Week 6
Chapter 14.pdf (261.71 KB) Pgs. 248-252


Week 7
• The reading process (phonics, phonological awareness, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, oral language)


Feb 24
Literacy crises, literacy myths
• Social and contextual influences
DIBELS Daily Oral Reading Fluency

DIBELS Nonsense Word Recognition

Harvey Graff (2011) The Literacy Myth at Thirty (first page, then 639-642)

Nasir & Hand (2008) From the court to the classroom… (pp. 143-148)


Week 9
Jocks and Burnouts,
• Reading strategies


For March 16
Strategy or strategies: Moje and co.


For March 23
Vocabulary Acquisition
Wineburg


For March 30
TBA

For April 6
TBA