names are often connected to family _______, _________, and ____________
histories
culture
identity
What is literacy?
The ability confidence and willingness to engage with language to acquire construct and communicate meaning in all aspects of daily living. Language is explained as a socially and culturally constructed system of communication
What is the traditional belief of what literacy is?
It was traditionally thought of as reading and writing
What are the 3 expressive dimensions?
- Speaking
- Writing
- Respresenting
Wha are the 3 receptive dimensions?
- Listening
- Reading
- Viewing
What is a text?
A representation of ideas that can be shared over distance and time
What are 3 forms that text takes?
- Print texts
- Electronic texts
- Visual and graphical images
Name 3 examples of print texts
- Novels
- Pictures
- Books
- Magazines
- Advertisements
- Etc.
Name 3 examples of electronic texts
- Webpages
- Blogs
- Texts
- Multimedia presentations
- Etc.
Name 3 examples of visual and graphical images
- Signs
- Packaging
- Cartoons
- Graphs
- Movies
- Video games
- Etc.
What are the four parts of theoretical foundations?
- Social constructivist
- Funds of knowledge
- Critical literacy
- Multiliteracies
All of these contribute to the other
What is Lev Vygotsky’s social constructive model of learning?
- Learning occurs through social interactions - this includes the learning of language
- Children are active in their meaning-making
- Children learn among themselves and with the support of more knowledgeable others
- Through collaborative work we negotiate and develop shared meanings
- Literacy learning is both a cognitive and a social cultural process
What is funds of knowledge?
Students draw on historically amassed and culturally developed bodies of knowledge and skills, their funds of knowledge, to construct and understanding of their social world
(knowledge comes from the family)
As a teacher, what can you do to draw from students funds of knowledge?
- Encouraging their home language
- Fostering home-school interactions / connections
- Using their past knowledge to bridge into new knowledge
If you think of curriculum as a dialogue, what would you ask?
Who are the learners in front of us?
What funds of knowledge do they bring with them to school?
What are the 4 parts of the four resource model?
- Code breaker
- Text participant
- Text user
- Text analyst
What would a code breaker ask?
How can I decipher the codes in the text?
What codes can I choose for this text?
What would the text participant ask?
What meaning can I make from this text?
How do I construct my text to say exactly what I mean?
What would the text user ask?
What is the purpose of this text?
What is my purpose and who is the audience for my text?
What would the text analyst ask?
How does this text affect me?
How can my text influence others?
