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5 Point Friday - 5 Key Articles from This Year's Literacy ... (Award Winner)
By: Mark Gura , one second agoPosted in: Literacy Network
Dr. Rose Reissman is this year's winner of the Literacy Network award (award title: SPOTLIGHT LITERACY PRACTICE) – Over the past few years she has submitted 30 articles to the Literacy Network's blog "Literacy Special Interest" (full list and links at ...
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Dr. Rose Reissman is this year's winner of the Literacy Network award (award title: SPOTLIGHT LITERACY PRACTICE) – Over the past few years she has submitted 30 articles to the Literacy Network's blog "Literacy Special Interest" (full list and links at foot of the award announcement post (https://literacyspecialinterest.blogspot.com/2020/05/dr-rose-reissman-2020-winner-of-annual.html ). <<All colleagues are invited to submit articles to the blog - interested? Contact markgura@verizon.net >>
Asked to list the 5 articles she feels are most relevant for today's literacy educators, she provided the list below (actually 7 articles).
Dr. Rose Reissman Articles / Literacy Special Interest – the blog of the ISTE Literacy Network
- "Covering" the Topic/ Using the Google Image Searc... This strategy is an easily infusible one that immediately kinesthetically engages special needs, ESL and visual learners in analyzing and developing book covers. One key first step in literacy learning and love.
- Living and Learning with Robots… NOW! This strategy is loaded with multi-content steam, social studies, cultural, economic and family connections. Students ran with it on their own.
- Introducing 'Publishers' Pages', a new Literacy Ge...An example of an available resource in plain sight which teachers can use to motivate any class book or author study. Bonus taps print, visual and auditory reading styles.
- Mary Poppins Pops into 21st Century Classrooms. This strategy works wonderfully for book study of any work published in 20th century or earlier which has television or movie adaptations. Rich in digital literacy projects and introduces students to a variety of literacy careers focused on transforming books into commercial digital products.
- Using the Writing of Child Leaders to Inspire Toda...This strategy taps the social justice teaching and learning power of internationally acclaimed peer authors to engage and to infuse principles of social justice. Students respond to these peers and produce rich personal digital products. This applies to number 18 and 13.
- Digital Text Mindfulness: Developing a New Literac...Late 20th and current 21st century YA and children's literature abounds with references to cell phones, texts, codes, searches You tube, Twitter, Instagram and going viral. Focusing student literacy lessons on these digital plot elements often crucial to the story engages them as readers and as digital users.
- Launching a 21st Century School Newspaper and Fost...
Often in an understandable rush to innovate, teachers do not tap the
possibilities of traditional tried and proven literacy projects such as
the ongoing school newspaper. Given options to develop it as a school
yearlong website with three to four issues replete with student digital
photographs and art plus audio links, 21st century validates the model
and underscores immediate student first amendment citizenship
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Mark Gura
Contributing Editor
EdTech Digest
