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Teach Balanced Literacy To Go |
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Tech Balanced Literacy to go is an eighteen hour course, plus additional 20 minutes tacked on to the first session for a quantifiable and qualitative assessment and an additional 20 minutes tacked on to the last session for a similar quantifiable and qualitative post assessment. |
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The thrust of this course is to immediately, enrapture, enthrall and engage the participant adult family members in the ease with which they can become active readers to and with their children and neighborhood youth. Beyond that explicit family literacy goal, the aim of this experience is to enroll the participants into the circle of active readers and writers. |
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The course will show them how the traditional perception of reading as reading dry print fiction stories or non fiction factual printed accounts, has over the last quarter of a century broadened to include electronic texts (web sites), functional documents, menus, passports, coupons, circulars, advertisements, billboards, movie subtitles, text messages, email and more. |
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In addition, the course wants to demonstrate to the participants that the computer can easily connect them and their children or community youth to a shared, delightful online literacy adventure. Just by typing in an author’s name, participants will learn how to visit him or her at a web site home. They will be able to write with that author, participate in projects (including art, acting, community service, games) with their author, and get feedback from the author site. In the same way, they “make” friends in the community by looking at family pictures and learning about family histories, participants will be able to see the author’s family photos, view a video of the author, and even hear him or her read. |
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Participants will also use several very user friendly programs (Storybook Weaver, Kid Pix Deluxe, Print Artist and MS Publisher) to generate their own illustrated stories, posters, covers, genre book formats and more inspired by the books they share. |
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Participants will also learn the current approach for teaching reading and writing grades K-12 called Balanced Literacy. This approach advocates using several anchor classic or highly regarded contemporary trade books as “anchor” works to demonstrate the three major workshops-the reading, the writing, and the word workshop. |
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Most importantly, all participants will learn how to perform as part of their daily family lives and in working with youth and relatives, the read aloud, the shared reading, the interactive reading, the family memoir writing, and the genre “in style of’ authoring. These daily joyous routines of everyday life, requiring only a borrowed library book, a walk down the block to the bodega to get food or a ride on the bus to work, are within the easy and ready “grasp, ear, and eye” of every participant. This course will focus on opening their eyes, ears, hands, hearts, and minds to the ways that literacy laced with technology can immeasurably enrich their lives and those of the children they nurture. |
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Readers’ technology tooled journeys are never ending!! |
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