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Role of Reading in English Class | Literacy
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Musings about reading, writing, teaching and learning. Role of Reading in English Class. This entry was posted on April 2, 2012, in EDC 382 S: Teaching Secondary Lang. Arts and Reading. In addition to offering numerous strategies to foster strong reading behaviors and identities, she makes a claim to English teachers that. And does not address the real difficulty in teaching students about underlying structures and innovations in language. Something I felt was missing along these lines is a more nuanced ...
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LitCrit in High School? | Literacy
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Musings about reading, writing, teaching and learning. LitCrit in High School? This entry was posted on March 4, 2012, in EDC 382 S: Teaching Secondary Lang. Arts and Reading. Appleman presents a strong argument for introducing secondary students to the world (and wonders! Is it for teachers already open to the possibility of using theory, or does it welcome those who are more used to the more text-centered, teacher-led approach (p. 38). 3 thoughts on “ LitCrit in High School? March 5, 2012 at 4:24 pm.
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Building Adolescent Literacy, Part II: Critical Thinking | Literacy
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Musings about reading, writing, teaching and learning. Building Adolescent Literacy, Part II: Critical Thinking. This entry was posted on April 22, 2012, in EDC 382 S: Teaching Secondary Lang. Arts and Reading. What is school for? In mind-bending metacognitive fashion, I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about critical thinking in schools. It is a buzzword that appears on grant proposals, curriculum documents, schools’ promotional materials (k-12 through higher ed! April 25, 2012 at 5:21 pm. I tea...
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Literacy | Musings about reading, writing, teaching and learning | Page 2
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Musings about reading, writing, teaching and learning. Indulging in Aesthetic Reading. As I began thinking about poetry, I looked through some of my old lesson plans and books on hand in an attempt to find something to bring to class. Sorting through years of reading in search of the perfect poem I found myself wanting to scan and skim through things, and was frustrated that I … Continue reading →. Power Dynamics: public and private language. Teacher Autobiography – Multimedia! Looking at the different w...
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Transactions with Poetry: Imagery | Literacy
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Musings about reading, writing, teaching and learning. Transactions with Poetry: Imagery. This entry was posted on February 21, 2012, in EDC 382 S: Teaching Secondary Lang. Arts and Reading. I listened to a lot of “Angry Girl Music” back in the day as my introduction to Ani DiFranco, and both she and I have grown a great deal since then. Punctuation and structure below are hers, and I’ll bring an audio version on Monday. She went over to his apartment. And he said, did you come here to tell me goodbye?
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The Reader in Fiction, Theory…and Real Life? | Literacy
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Musings about reading, writing, teaching and learning. The Reader in Fiction, Theory…and Real Life? This entry was posted on February 27, 2012, in EDC 382 S: Teaching Secondary Lang. Arts and Reading. Interestingly enough, my understanding of the transaction of reading is heavily informed by fictionalizations of reading. In some ways, Borges’ short story Pierre Menard, Author of the Quijote. If on a winter’s night a traveler. If on a winter’s night a traveler. Just a moment, I’ve almost finished. Fill in...
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Some Thoughts on Teaching English: April 2012
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Some Thoughts on Teaching English. Monday, April 23, 2012. Building Adolescent Literacy - Part II. Publishing really must be part of each piece of writing. Chapter 14, "Teaching Toward Participation in Digital Culture," made me think about publishing in ways I had not before. I tend to be a pen and paper kind of person, so I often forget all that we can do with our new literacies. (I am so inspired that I even tried creating links in this blog post! That we may need to call our subject Language Arts rath...
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Some Thoughts on Teaching English: More Thoughts on Culture, Literacy, and Learning
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Some Thoughts on Teaching English. Sunday, March 25, 2012. More Thoughts on Culture, Literacy, and Learning. I have been thinking about Lee's book since last week's class discussion. I have recently read Winn and Johnson's (2011). Writing Instruction in the Culturally Relevant Classroom. How will that enable students to look more critically at their lives, their world, and work to change their world? I feel like there needs to be a larger purpose than just analyzing literature. I am a former English teac...
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Some Thoughts on Teaching English: Louise Rosenblatt's The Reader, The Text, The Poem (Ch. 1-3)
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Some Thoughts on Teaching English. Sunday, February 19, 2012. Louise Rosenblatt's The Reader, The Text, The Poem (Ch. 1-3). I think, though, that sometimes we do just that in school. We make kids read efferently when they want to read aesthetically. We "push the richly infused cognitive-affective matrix into the fringes of consciousness" (p.40). How do we not separate the emotional response from the "message" of the text? How often do students feel invisible in their reading experiences in school? You wr...
