September 2011
3 posts
9/25/11
I think the most important thing that i have taken away from Penny Kittle’s “Write Beside Them” was to be the example . The not only was shown time and time again in this book as also in the article we read this past week in class. It so unbelievably cool it is to have a teacher actually do an assignment that is assigned to the class. Why is it that 95% of teachers have never...
9/18/11
Each week we are constantly pealing back a layer of defining what literacy means to each and every one of us. In our group in particular it is as interesting as it is frustrating, having these discussions. Each time we are prompted by a new article fallowed by a group discussion we not only get way off topic on our own personal literacy experiences but also are realizing how much we never can...
9/11/11
Trace your reading and writing practices for a couple of days. Become ethnographers. What do you read and write? What is the function of those reading and writing practices? What do you label as reading or writing? What connections do these things have to schooling? Reflect on your own uses of literacy in your post.
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