As an avid reader, I am quite excited about learning how to implement different literacy teaching strategies in my future classroom. Reading has always excited me, and I am hoping to be able to share/pass this along to some of my future social studies students.
Our class discussion of how important technology is for reaching our students was really eye-opening. Seeing the statistics of how many hours they spend reading versus watching tv and playing video games was especially troubling. It is crazy to think that I am not much older than these students, yet I cannot identify with these statistics at all. I still find joy in perusing the library for great books to read and curling up in bed for an afternoon for an adventure in some foreign land through a good book. My facebook addiction is one aspect of technology that I do have in common with these students, however I end up spending most of my time on facebook playing Wheel of Fortune. Literacy skills (reading, writing, spelling, inferring, etc.) certainly are present everywhere these days, and that's why I believe literacy is so important to implement in each and every classroom.
A second part of our class discussion on Wednesday that interested me was how important middle and high school teachers are in teaching literacy. Learning how to read and write does not stop in the third grade as many seem to assume. It is important for students to learn how to read and write for specific content understanding and for students to transition into "reading for learning."
I see disciplinary literacy and "reading for learning" as quite interconnected and I can't wait to learn more about how to teach these concepts in my classroom.
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