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=Welcome to English Literature Literacy Notebook =

My Literacy Page

We teach reading to children in elementary school but at some point it stops. The problem with this is that not all students learn at the same rate. Literacy education needs to continue throughout a student's years of education including middle school and high school. It's funny, I never thought about teaching literacy and I'm going to be a literature teacher. I can not assume that every student that walks into my class will be able to read at grade level. This wiki is to show my hope that I can elevate every individual student that comes through my classroom. Not only will their reading ability rise but their literacy IQ will rise. They will understand what they are reading.

Inside these pages you will find some ideas on how I plan to weave literacy mini-lessons throughout the year. Almost all of them come from the book, "Building Reading Comprenhension Habits In Grade 6-12: A toolkit of Classroom Activities" by Jeff Zwiers unless otherwise noted. My intent is that as I progress through my program at St. Mary's that I will be able to tweek this wiki and make it better.

"Every subject or content area has it's own grammar, it's criteria for judging what counts." -Laura McCauley (SMU Teacher).

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Thoughts on Writing

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