Reading and literacy instruction

Question 1

Martha Michael & Beverly Trezek (2006).

Answer 1

Educational justice, “Can be accomplished through a variety of multiple literacy presentations that would support and differentiate how learning, understanding, and multidimensional synthesized thought occurs for not only the struggling ninth grader, but all ninth grade students,”

Question 2

Nancy Frey (2008)

Answer 2

“We are emphasizing that teachers, and parents, need to surround our students with nonfiction and narrative texts. Imagine if our students came to school as familiar with the structure of an informational book as they are with a fairy tale?”

Question 3

Katie Wood Ray (2004)

Answer 3

students picking, “Topics that matter to them, to write about the same topics again and again in different ways, and to share their writing with others who share their passions. She knows that before she can ever expect them to care deeply about how they write, they must care deeply about what they are writing,”

Question 4

Kathleen Collins (2011)

Answer 4

“A multiple literacies perspective asserts that printed forms of academic or standard literacy are just one form of making and communicating meaning.”
Other literacy practices:
- Visual, graphic forms of making meaning (maps, flow charts)
- physical kinesthetic forms of making meaning (Movement, dance)