Literacy for Life
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This week is an examination of our reading and writing lives beyond formal education.
Doing interviews? Have candidates also respond in writing to a progressive article, such as A Level is a Teacher’s Tool, NOT a Child’s Label by Jill Backman. You can examine their writing ability as well as their beliefs about literacy.
Reading classic literature and writing poetry can be lifelong endeavors, not just something we do in school.
Next month, we begin the 2020 Summer Book Study. We are reading Engaging Literate Minds: Developing Children’s Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K–3 (Stenhouse, 2020). Check out how to participate here.
During a #G2Great chat on Twitter, Clare Landrigan shared a list of curated links to several poems kids can read on Epic during remote learning.
I’ll be going back to one subscriber-only article per week starting May 4. For the month of May, all proceeds from subscriptions will be donated to No Kid Hungry and my city’s local food pantry.
