Literacy News

• Ahead of the curve – The Somerville News Blog
  “Visual literacy” means recognizing how a message is shaped by the medium that is delivering it. Alan describes a phenomenon that will transform K-12 education as we know it. With the proliferation of digital technology and media as educational tools, schools will become the equivalent of one-room schoolhouses, where everyone learns from everyone else, and the teacher is more coach and choreographer than attendance taker and grader. A diverse group of Somerville High kids …

• Illinois Secretary of State Announces Family Reading Night Set For …
  Herrin City Library, together with John A Logan College Literacy Program, have invited Lincoln impersonator Earl Webb to address families. Families will read Louise Borden’s “A. Lincoln and Me.” Parents and children will make stovepipe …

• Literacy Blog #11 « Kathryn's Blog
  Literacy Blog #11. November 21, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized. I was glad to read some text that was specifically targeted for the upper elementary grades. Personally, I just do not see myself as much of a K-2 kind of teacher, …

• The Children's Book Review: What's Hot in November, 2009? Kids …
  Is there somewhere you recommend being seen encouraging kids to read or promoting literacy during the month of November or December? Leave your suggestion in the comments field below. Posted by The Children’s Book Review Bianca Schulze …

• Education Research Report: Teacher Quality – Reading and Writing
  Head Start Teachers’ Perspectives on Early Literacy. Journal of Literacy Research, 40: 422-460. Gerde, H.K., and Powell, D.R. (in press). Teacher Education, Book-Reading Practices, and Children’s Language Growth Across One Year of Head …

• Reilly Elementary's Literacy Night! See the BookSpring difference …
  She read me the book, beaming the entire time. When I told her what a wonderful job she had done, she revealed that she couldn’t wait to share her book with her teacher, brother, and mom. Very sweet – totally warmed my heart and …

• Strategy Instruction Misuse | The Literacy Cafe
  Today’s Literacy Dish: Yesterday we read an article by Shari Frost in Choice Literacy that takes a closer look at reading strategy instruction and some of its pitfalls. Frost wrote about the 1st grade teacher that took 45 minutes to …

• Leor Galil – Ex-Spectator – The Velvet Underground to reunite… for …
  The Velvet Underground to reunite… for literacy. Cover of “The Velvet Underground”. Cover of The Velvet Underground. The library just got a little cooler. Lou Reed, Maureen “Moe” Tucker and Doug Yule, all former members of the iconic proto- punk band The Velvet Underground, will come together for a little event at the New York Public Library on December 8. No need to bring your earplugs, …. About Me. I write about music. I used to book shows. I’m in grad school. Read on. …

• The Literacy Blog: Creative writing at five years of age!
  Sounds-Write runs courses in how to teach reading and spelling for teachers, teaching assistants, parents and educational psychologists. I love north Staffordshire oatcakes and I’m a lifelong Stoke City supporter. …

• The Jungle Hut: Pictorial Essay ~ My Autobiography
  Building Dispensaries. Fighting malaria through fumigation, blood testing and medicines. Jungle Mom teaching hygiene class. Teaching literacy. Children learn to read both Ye’kwana and Spanish. Build schools and train teachers. …

• Anxiolysis: Toward a Scientific Education
  To guard against this we need to teach facts, yes, but one person cannot know all of the facts. We need a way of evaluating ideas without relying on our own knowledge of facts, lest we fall prey to more insidious ruminations and conjecture. … A Conceptual Framework for the Enhancement of Popularity and Relevance of Science Education for Scientific Literacy, based on Stakeholders’ Views by Means of a Curricular Delph Study in Chemistry. Science Education International. …

• 'Precious' Tweets Translate Into Dollars For Literacy Org
  Everybody Wins aims to bridge the literacy gap by bringing in volunteer mentors into schools for one-on-one weekly read-aloud sessions. The organization serves nearly 20000 children and adults in 16 states and Washington, DC. …

• Lwict Fall Institute – November 19 – Day 1 « Literacy with ICT Blog
  18 Comments ». 1. How did your understanding of Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum develop today?? I now have a better idea of what is expected of me in the grade that I teach and some of the stress has been take away. …

• War, the military, COIN and stuff: More Afghan Combat Soldiers …
  Another big push is the need to increase the literacy rate for troops and police officers in a country in which only about 28 percent of the people can read and write. Gen Formica has brought in Dr. Mike Faughnan as his literacy and …

• Information Literacy and Inquiry as Disruption to School Culture …
  In reflecting and returning to a reality that I faced when I adopted a literacy as inquiry stance as a classroom teacher in 2002, I am revisiting my studies of literacy as inquiry with Dr. Bob Fecho at the University of Georgia. …

• Only in Pakistan – antonyms are synonyms – Shubh Space
  The headlines in one of its prominent news outlet read. Pakistan has better literacy rate than India. Ummm….okay. If you have data to back that statement, I’m willing to accept it. After all you apparently have quote a source from the …

• Where and Back Again: Historical Maps and What They Teach Us
  Benjamin Keene: I have appeared on National Public Radio, Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio as well as many other nationally syndicated programs to discuss geographic literacy and my work updating a bestselling world atlas. …

• Literacy, families and learning: Getting Boys into Reading Through …
  3. Fathers have a key role to play in boys’ literacy and learning development (see my post on research in this area here). 4. Boys need a lot of help choosing books that they will not only like, but which they will be able to read. …

• History of Health Literacy – Part 2 « Health Literacy – for health …
  … an amazing journey with much still to learn, policy to be developed, funding to obtain, awareness to be heightened and citizens to teach. I encourage you to begin your own journey on that road through the history of health literacy. …

• MNet Blog – Review: New Media Education Resources
  Media Literacy is Elementary: Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media, Jeff Share. Peter Lang, 2009. Jeff Share worked for Liz Thoman of the Centre for Media Literacy, did his doctorate under Douglas Kellner (a cultural …

• The Homeschool Messenger: Promoting Literacy with National Game Week
  Tweet For Literacy is promoting playing games as part of the Tweet For Literacy Campaign. What a great way to teach and reinforce reading. When it is time to play a game it is best to let your reader read the instructions and then have …

• What are the basics of computer literacy? | TechBlog | Chron.com …
  Rather it is a recognition that most computer illiterate belong to the group of people that do not like to ‘read the manual’. And that’s regardless of how easy it is to access the multi-media versions of the modern computer manual. …

• Literacy Learning
  We need to make sure that our schools have enough time to teach reading effectively, and I suspect we will need longer school years and longer school days to accomplish that with all kids. But currently we are not using teaching time …

• Katie & Kimble Blog :: Sneak Peak: Tweet for Literacy Prize Pack 8 …
  Donated by Tweet for Literacy sponsor Cheryl Malandrinos. Click here to read more about Tweet for Literacy and to enter the contest. We’re giving away a set of prizes every two days for the month of November! Enter as often as you like. …

• Palin, Oprah and media literacy > Marybeth Hicks > past columns
  In fact, the Center for Media Literacy (CML) has long advocated that parents teach their children the five basic principles that must be applied when evaluating media content: Media messages are constructed; they contain embedded values …

• Reading Recovery Program Celebrates 15 Years | FortBendNow.com
  TWU officials cited FBISD’s success at providing intensive tutorials to struggling readers to accelerate their literacy learning so that they can read at the same level as their peers and work independently in their regular classrooms. …

• CSUN Literacy Program Gives Students The Keys to Help Children …
  Sears said the diversity forces the Literacy Scholars to realize that they are going to have to be flexible-that what worked with one child may not work with another. The school’s kindergarten teacher, her teaching assistants, …

• Oprah's 'Favorite Things' in Her Journalism Career at The Insider
  In 1996, the famous “Oprah’s Book Club” was established to promote literacy and inspire people to read. To this day, viewers continue to rely on Oprah’s advice on what book to pick up next. With the evolution of technology, …

• Review: PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE | We Are …
  When she breaks down late in the film to her literacy teacher, played wonderfully by Paula Patton, about not feeling love from the world, you understand why, and you weep for her. Precious is a girl who dream of a better life, …

• Energy Literacy part One: Energy is invisible – Boing Boing
  You chose to read this, which means you chose to use some energy. These posts are not “carbon free” or “carbon neutral”. At the time of its publishing there was practically no way that it ever could have been. …

• Mr. Mayo's Class Integrates CC, Skypes with Lawrence Lessig …
  But what I teach this year–I’m a language arts teacher, but this year I’m teaching a film and literacy class. So it’s kind of a cool thing for middle schoolers to be able to take. My district is offering it and basically, we watch films …

• iLL-Literacy – iB4the1.1 EP | 2dopeboyz
  Glad I did… this stuff is pretty sweet. Here is the first part of three “chapters” from their new album iB4the1 (I Before The 1). Confused? Yea… read the quote below. iLL-Literacy will be releasing iB4the1 in three chapters. …

• AMU faculty pledge, each one teach one, Uttar Pradesh News – By …
  Khan also stressed the need of active participation of poor and underprivileged in the literacy programmes to get better results. Prof. A.K. Verma, Prof. M.H. Beg, Prof. Tariq Mansoor, Prof. M.H. Raza, Dr. M.M. Ansari, Dr. M. Aslam and …

• New York Times Link Generator (presented by reddit) – Jerz's …
  I’ve been using it as I read The Girl Who… Top 10 Bad Messages From Good Movies Wired gives Star Wars a good drubbing, focusing on the ending:There are somewhere between 20 and 30 one-man fighters in. …

• One Man's Trash . . .: A Review; A Request; A Poem
  I served in the army from 1988-1992, eventually graduating from Southern Utah University for my undergraduate work in History, and UNR for my graduate work in Literacy Studies. I teach English, History and remedial reading. …

• Rep. Ehlers brings libraries to forefront of discussion during …
  Mr. Ehlers stated that “he believed that libraries played an important role in literacy” and that he learned to read as a child by going to his local library when he could not attend school. He went on to ask the panel of education and …

• MNet Blog – Review: New Media Education Resources
  This review has been written by Barry Duncan, an award-winning teacher, author, consultant and founder and past president of the Ontario-based Association for Media Literacy. Mapping Media Education Policies in the World: Visions, …

• UAE Education Events You Won't Want to Miss! « Literacy is Priceless
  12/08/09 Mom 2.0: Digital Literacy and Cyber Safety: What Kids and Parents Need to Know! Learn how to help your kids interact safely and productively online! Location: Magrudy’s Education Resource Center in Dubai, 9am-12pm. Read …

• Congressional Committee Mulls Ways to Improve Literacy – High …
  In the high school space, much has been made lately of the need to boost adolescents’ reading and writing skills, and to revamp the way high schools teach that stuff. (That is to say, the need to teach literacy explicitly, …

• Santa Claus Mural Activity for Preschoolers: Christmas Holiday Art …
  Early Literacy: Read a Santa Claus themed Christmas book. Turn the mural into a visual depiction of the narrative. Science/Nature: Create a winter backdrop for the Santa scene. Discuss winter as a season. A collaborative art project can …

• Bill would boost money for literacy programs
  It’s all part of the effort to teach the nation’s children to read. With state and local funding for education being squeezed, however, school administrators and classroom teachers are hoping a bill introduced by Sen. …

• Precious, my Precious: Black Female Citizenship, Complexity, and …
  Her increasing sense of pride and self-worth is tied directly to her increasing ability to read. Literacy is a powerful thing. It increases one’s ability to navigate and transform the physical, political, and economic conditions we find …

• Bay teacher gets November named Family Literacy Month – Jonesboro Sun
  BAY — November has been deemed Arkansas Family Literacy Month because of the effort of a local school teacher. Angela Johns, Bay High School instructional facilitator, will be in Little Rock today to present a proclamation to the Arkansas Reading …

• Sen. Murray’s bill aims to boost to literacy – Tri-City Herald
  WASHINGTON — There are zero-book children, 1,000-book children, the summer slide, Early Readers, Reading First, Striving Readers and programs, methods and studies with names and acronyms that won’t quit. It’s all part of the effort to teach U.S …

• Puppet Plays Plus: Using Stock Characters to Entertain and Teach …
  Puppet Plays Plus: Using Stock Characters to Entertain and Teach Early Literacy. by admin on November 21, 2009. Product DescriptionJoin Piggy Rae and her silly friends Bernie Bear, Tommy Turtle, Alistair McMoose and others in these …

• Bill would boost money for literacy programs
  Roughly one in seven adults in the United States can’t read newspapers, gas bills or this sentence, according to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy released earlier this year. About 40 percent of students have trouble learning to …

• Attend workshop to be volunteer literacy tutor in Indian River County – TCPalm
  INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Help an adult learn to read or learn English! One out of five adults in our county needs and wants such help. Literacy Services of Indian River County, a United Way nonprofit agency partner, is providing a free workshop …

• Bill would boost money for literacy programs – Biloxi Sun Herald
  WASHINGTON — There are zero-book children, 1,000-book children, the summer slide, Early Readers, Reading First, Striving Readers and programs, methods and studies with names and acronyms that won’t quit. It’s all part of the effort to teach the …

• Business Literacy Made Simple | Aviva Community Fund
  Easier to learn and easier to teach, Business Literacy Made Simple is the shortest, quickest route to comprehension, delivering the most info in the shortest time to the broadest possible audience. I am the possibility of making a …

• Read.gov « Annette J Dunlea Irish Author's Literary Blog
  Just Start Reading ». Now showing: Episode 4 ». The Exquisite Corpse Adventure is a project of the Center for the Book and the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance. Read more » …

• Showcase Literacy – The Observer
  Celebrate an evening of literacy and opinions with Rex Murphy one of Canada’s most watched and best-read commentators, and a public speaker who draws crowds from coast to coast. Rex Murphy is the weelkly commentator on CBC Television’s “The National …

• Federal bill would put billions into literacy education – Tacoma News Tribune
  WASHINGTON – There are zero-book children, 1,000-book children, the summer slide, Early Readers, Reading First, Striving Readers and programs, methods and studies with names and acronyms that won’t quit. It’s all part of the effort to teach the …

• New literacy act under review | CU Independent
  Districts come up with different ideas to teach students, and the grant money goes to fill in the students’ gaps in literacy. “Through my work I’ve seen there’s a need to improve basic literacy and without that, you can’t even go to …

• The Reading Brain – Wallace's posterous
  The first mystery is how the individual human brain learns to read. What changes take place inside our head between kindergarten and second grade, when most of us start to take literacy for granted? How do we go from sounding out …

• Bookstore is a beachhead in literacy battle – Chicago Tribune
  Becca Keaty is effusive when it comes to her favorite subject: books. “I almost get physically overwhelmed by how many books there are in the world and how little time I get to read them,” she says. “There’s nothing more exciting than that moment …

• Making Tecnhological Literacy Part of the Curriculum – Greensburg Daily News
  The following article is based on a 1984 book chapter by Paul W. Devore – though I’ve taken a few liberties with it. For all these years, technology promised liberation – freedom from drudgery, back pain, and sweat. Only lately have we noticed …

• “We teach this civilization into existence.” — Junot Díaz – The …
  “We teach this civilization into existence,” he said. “We’re the people who connect the present with the past, but we also see the future.” Díaz also spoke on the value of reading. He said there is more to reading than just literacy, …

• Poll shows Slovakia's computer literacy continues to rise – The …
  The digital literacy index in Slovakia increased and reached 0.44 points this year, up from 0.33 in 2005 and 0.37 in 2007, according to an annual survey by the Institute of Public Affairs (IVO) released on November 19, the TASR newswire wrote. … What kinds of books do you read most often? literature & fiction; technology, science, computer science; economic/ social/ cultural issues; history, geography, and biography; philosophy and psychology; other; I do not read books …

• Literacy 101: Oprah Winfrey film highlights National Family Literacy … – Examiner
  The National Center for Family Literacy has many programs during National Family Literacy Month. Photo from the National Center for Family Literacy One-third of all fourth graders in this country cannot read at grade level, according to the National …

• HICKS: Palin, Oprah and media literacy – Washington Times
  Thanks to Oprah Winfrey’s interview of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, I’m heading out to buy her book, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” Like millions of Americans, Mrs. Palin intrigues me, not because I’m a huge fan or a huge skeptic, but because …

• The Brandeis Hoot » Artist visits to work on Family Literacy …
  … Children’s Center to teach children about Lesotho and do a mural with them, visited the Rose Art Musuem with Professor Mark Auslander’s “Cross Cultural Arts and Aesthetics” course and students from Waltham Family Literacy School to …

• The Reading Brain : The Frontal Cortex
  He also speculates that, while “learning to read induces massive cognitive gains,” it also comes with a hidden mental cost: because so much of our visual cortex is now devoted to literacy, we’re less able to “read” the details of …

• ACTE Releases Brief Describing CTE Strategies to Improve Adolescent … – YAHOO!
  The Issue Brief highlights a variety of ways programs are raising literacy skills including motivating students to read and write content related to their interests; increasing the amount of time students read news articles, relevant literature and …

• River Falls Events (Nov. 19) – River Falls Journal
  The River Falls Public Library is seeking works by area artists for its annual and upcoming Community Art Show. Artists of all skill levels are asked to submit up to three pieces by Tuesday, Dec. 1, which will be displayed throughout the building …

• PreK pays at Teach Effectively!
  Positive impacts of PreK were found in each of three content areas important to early academic success – language, literacy, and math. Findings in literacy and mathematics were statistically significant in analyses for each school year …

• Susieqtpies Scraps of LIfe: Tweet For Literacy Giveaway Prize …
  Tweet for Literacy will be giving away literacy-related prizes every two days throughout the month of November in honor of National Family Literacy Month. Help a child to read, and let the fun begin! Check daily for new prize pack …

• Reinvigorating Literacy Education in the US – findingDulcinea
  In addition to a slew of studies, initiatives, programs and methods that aim to teach American children to read, a new federal bill would provide much-needed funds for literacy programs. Although state and local funding for schools has taken a hit …

• Literacy Council of Bay County, Retired Senior Volunteer Program to … – MLive.com
  The Literacy Council works throughout Bay County to teach kids and adults to read. The Retired Senior Volunteer Program gives seniors a chance to use their skills through volunteering, said Kathy Rayner, executive director at the Literacy Council.

• » Digital Is. Or Isn't. Or Always (Never?) Was. Or Not. Bud the …
  So, making media becomes the way to teach media awareness and literacy. Yes? A short movie, scripted and shot and edited and scored, takes much more time to make than an essay, it seems. In fact, at least two texts are created – the …

• 100pc literacy rate by 2013 – New Nation
  State Minister for the Primary and Mass Education Motahar Hossain yesterday said the 100 per cent literacy rate would be achieved by 2013. To reach the destination, the government has taken programmes to bring all the children under the primary …

• iBrattleboro.com – Family Literacy Program in Bellows Falls
  Montpelier ~ Cornerstone Pediatrics will host a Read With Me family literacy program in two segments on December 4 and 11 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at 128 Atkinson Street in Bellows Falls. The program is free and open to parents and …

• Everyone Read This – Chowk
  Pakistan has better literacy ratio than India: UNFPA ISLAMABAD: The education rate and literacy indicators in Pakistan are better than those in India, a United Nations Fund for Population (UNFPA) report said on Wednesday. As per details regarding …

• Arts Curriculum Teaches Life Skills – Star-Press
  Muncie, IN — Elementary teachers in the Muncie area will have access to training in the Young Audiences Arts for Learning Lessons which focus on specific literacy skills integrated with a different art form, such as music, graphic novels, or dance …

• What are the basics of computer literacy? | TechBlog | Chron.com …
  As a teacher, I have to agree with the basics of parts, networking, and terminology comments. You would think high school students would be literate in those aspects, but most of them aren’t. They know everything about their phones and …

• Agoo wins Unesco literacy prize – Philippine Star Online
  MANILA, Philippines – The municipality of Agoo, La Union has been conferred the Confucius Prize for Literacy by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for their program promoting literacy, continuing education …

• Comic Book Literacy: Help Spread the Word About This Film » Fanboy.com
  Not only do these kids read the comics, but they go on to read other books on related topics. That’s why this trailer for the film Comic Book Literacy got my attention — it’s drawing more attention to a powerful idea that works. …

• Fun to read – Corpus Christi Caller
  Michalene Stecker reads to students at Windsor Park Elementary School on Friday. Students wore their pajamas to school and brought blankets and books from home during the school’s Drop Everything and Read Day to promote literacy. Photo by George …

• Reinvigorating Literacy Education in the US – findingDulcinea
  In addition to a slew of studies, initiatives, programs and methods that aim to teach American children to read, a new federal bill would provide much-needed funds for literacy programs. Although state and local funding for schools has taken a hit …

• Susieqtpies Scraps of LIfe: Tweet For Literacy Giveaway Prize …
  Our goal is to empower children and teens, especially girls, who are so often overlooked. We also seek to teach tolerance and self-acceptance through reading and through family interaction. The Tweet for Literacy Giveaway is a campaign …

• Pilot program aims to boost high school literacy – Newsday
  Pilot writing program aims to boost literacy at New Albany High School NEW ALBANY, Ind. – NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana high school is working with Indiana University Southeast to create a pilot writing program designed to help improve …

• Inspiring Guys to Read! « Literacy is Priceless
  Tags: Anna Batchelder, blog for teachers, Bon Education, books, books for guys, books for teenage boys, education blog, Guys Read, Jon Scieszka, literacy, literacy blog, literacy resources, male readers, reading, reading blog …

• Kids ‘Paws to Read’ With Dogs for Literacy – FOX 9 News
  MINNEAPOLIS – The program Paws to Read is helping children’s literacy rates. Currently there is a partnership with the Hennepin County Library system in which kids sit down with a dog and read it a book. Research shows there are several benefits. A …

• Annual literacy event informative for children and parents alike – The Tribune
  Zora Granado, 3, plays with a row of foam letters at Literacy Night on Thursday night at Platte Valley Elementary School in Kersey. While the children engaged in reading exercises and games, their parents attended classes to inform them of literacy …

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