Literacy is the ability to make sense of or use ‘something.’ From books to technology, research to writing, literacy is the foundation of learning.
Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.
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“Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?” aims to make literacy instruction accessible to all content area teachers.
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Blogging enables you to write freely about your ideas and thoughts and share them, and use them as a means for personal growth and reflection.
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Knowing that I had to incorporate the iPads into my classroom slowly, I decided to develop one unit of the writing process digitally using Photo Story.
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The goal of close reading is to analyze the text and interpret why details–and the text itself–are significant.
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BoomWriter is a free platform for group writing that engages students in collaborative projects for all subject areas to help them improve their writing.
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Web literacy touches on a variety of competencies but allows students to do one essential thing: meaningfully engage on the Internet.
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What should you read next? Consider Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World,’ Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ or Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Player Piano.’
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In this post we consider the appropriate text complexity to use in order to help students develop text comprehension.
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Teachers are using technology to teach reading, arguing that interactive video games provide the skills that students need to be able to read.
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We’re sharing the insightful, detailed, emotional, or otherwise compelling reader responses in some intermittent pattern.
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What, in fact, do you do when you read challenging text? What do you do when you do not understand on first pass?
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