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Post by alexandrajohnson on Mar 24, 2016 11:51:22 GMT -5
Since we are reaching the end of the semester and approaching the time where we have to start drafting our unit plans...I wanted to ask everyone what is the most important thing that they learned about literacy in the content area that they think is essential to implementing in their Unit Plan.
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Post by loganc on Mar 29, 2016 14:44:21 GMT -5
To me, the most important thing that I have learned about literacy is that it comes in a handful of different forms! For example, the drawing that the child created was incomprehensible to adults but the child could explain it perfectly because it was in a language that made sense to them! I think this is especially important in my content area because I plan to teach English so I think it's important to understand that students explain things in a way that makes sense to them!
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Post by andryahr on Mar 30, 2016 15:33:35 GMT -5
I think the most important thing I have learned is that it is not just the basic definition of literacy. Coming into this class, I was really confused because I just kept thinking of course literacy will be important in my classroom - I will be teaching English. But the more we talked about it, I realized literacy comes into play way more than I thought in ways I never imagined. Like Logan says there's even a literacy within art & drawing, not an aspect I would have ever considered. Analysis is very important to me and I think it's a literacy not many students practice so this is something I will incorporate in my lesson plans, the practice of and the teaching of.
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Post by angelawithee on Mar 30, 2016 16:33:23 GMT -5
When I was researching literacy for our midterm paper I came across the quotation that literacy is "reading the world around us." Personally I found this to be a perfect description of literacy. In my paper I wrote about how we can improve our students comprehension of the world around them by connecting literature to the world around them. Essentially I talked about a lot of text to world.
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Post by loganc on Apr 4, 2016 22:39:15 GMT -5
I agree with you about analysis, HR! I feel like in middle and high school I was never actually taught how to analyze a novel, poetry, a graphic novel, a song, etc. but that is definitely a skill that I think my students could learn from! In middle and high school I was just expected to be a natural analyzer and I was not, but when I came to college I was actually taught how to analyze and now I look back at things that I read in my literature classes in middle and high school and I have such a greater understanding and appreciation for those novels, poems, whatever.
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Post by miko on Apr 5, 2016 12:21:55 GMT -5
The most important thing I've learned about literacy is how it has evolved. I'm a bit older than most of you guys so when I attended secondary school literacy was viewed as reading and writing, now it has taken on a new form I couldn't even fathom digital literacy back in the day now I'm texting, emailing, surfing and even blogging.
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Post by lexxy95 on Apr 6, 2016 10:53:29 GMT -5
At the beginning of the semester, when I heard literacy I thought, "Reading, Writing, Speaking"... Now, I have a whole new definition of it. Literacy can be whatever you make it. Of course, those are the basic forms of literacy but it's much deeper than that.. Writing could be blogging, journaling, and word walling.. Speaking can be Socratic discussions.. Group work... Reading a play aloud.. The options are limitless, but literacy practices should involve thinking and researching and actually learning... And enjoying it.
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Post by katelyn on Apr 6, 2016 16:38:50 GMT -5
I think the most important thing that I learned about literacy in my content area is the general idea of it. I was thinking of literacy in a completely wrong way until George graded my midterm--I was thinking about it in terms of trying again and again to do something in a specific way. From this course, I learned that a literacy practice is like how a doctor practices medicine. A literacy practice represents the action of someone partaking in some form of literacy. I'm not sure if I explained it right, but that's how I think of it in my mind. In regards to the original question posed, what I took away from this class is that I need some sort of general theme to my class in which students can preform myriad literacy practices that fulfill this theme.
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Post by brittanysinitch on Apr 12, 2016 12:37:39 GMT -5
I agree with you guys. I had such a basic idea of what I thought literacy was before coming into this class. Now I understand that literacy really does go across many different content areas. I feel like there are no REAL rules to literacy, we make it what we make it for our students. Of course there will always be the standards and what the students should be learning, but it is also so important to engage students in literacy and get them thinking based on their very own interest.
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Post by ashleyygreen12 on Apr 13, 2016 8:30:49 GMT -5
My definition of literacy has definitely expanded thanks to our discussions in this class. I learned how to view new things as literacy and that helped me broaden my lesson plan and it's objectives. I also learned how intersectional literacy can be, not just literacy across the content areas but how the content areas influence each other and how that both builds and changes students literacy. I know see the infinite ways that we, as teachers, can work on building literacy within our students and how that will be ever evolving.
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Post by sarahaubreyr on Apr 17, 2016 13:15:07 GMT -5
I completely agree with all my classmates when it comes to what we learned about literacy this semester. I definitely learned that literacy has the basic definition, but it also does not have to be confined to that basic definition. However, I especially agree with Katelyn, literacy was confusing to me and I was heading in the wrong direction until I reread my midterm and made the corrections needed. Although, there are times where I still have questions about literacy, I think I have gotten a better grasp on it.
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Post by kaylynj on Apr 19, 2016 15:38:07 GMT -5
I have to agree with my fellow English Education classmates in saying that our content area is one that seems to have the most basic literacy practices, but I truly had no idea how to identify or implement these into my classroom until this class. Honestly this class was super confusing to me when discussing literacy practices and how to use them in my class, but I feel my unit plan incorporated the use of multiple literacy practices, so I guess I learned something. I think the goal for myself as a teacher now is to push students beyond the simple reading and writing literacy practices and make them use higher order thinking and to explore and come up with ideas on their own. This class definitely added something else to how I am going to teach my students in the future.
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