Literacy practices in the classroom

1. Literacy Practice
in the Classroom
Literacy is the ability to read, view,
write, design, speak and listen in a
way that allows us to communicate
effectively and to make sense of the
world.
June 11th 2016 TKT PROGRAM
Image by Ruben Alvarado)

2. OBJECTIVE
To allow participants explore
ways to promote literacy in the
classroom.
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3. OUTCOMES
Participants will make a
presentation about how to teach a
specific skill to promote literacy in
the classroom.
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4. AGENDA
First Part ( 02:00 to 04:30 p.m.)
• Sharing Fun Communicative Activities (10’ each)
• Introducing some aspects about Literacy
• Preparing the presentation to promote literacy in the classroom
• Making the presentation.
Break ( 04:30 to 04:45 p.m.)
Second Part ( 04:45 to 7:00)
• Sharing a story to promote literacy.
• Work on updating their e-blogs
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6. Why is literacy important?
Literacy is vital to ensuring your
child has the best chance to
succeed in their schooling and
everyday life. Literacy allows us
to make sense of a range of
written, visual and spoken texts
including books, newspapers,
magazines, timetables, DVDs,
television and radio programs,
signs, maps, conversations and
instructions.
http://education.qld.gov.au/literacyandnumeracy/pdf/factsheet-l-n.pdf
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7. Ways to support your child’s
literacy development
Children’s motivation
and achievement
improve when their
parents, carers and
teachers are
involved in their
education.
There are many
everyday things you
can do to encourage
literacy learning.
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8. • Encouraging your
child to read and
view a variety of
texts such as
newspapers,
novels, comics,
magazines,
websites, email,
timetables,
instructions and
recipes.
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9. • Encouraging your
child to write and
design for a variety
of purposes using
print and electronic
resources —
invitations, thank
you notes,
shopping lists,
messages, journals
and electronic slide
shows.
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10. • Encouraging your
child to speak and
listen for a variety
of purposes —
sharing a joke,
giving instructions
or asking for
information.
• Sharing a love of
language.
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11. • Discussing how texts
look different
depending on the
purpose and audience
— for example, text
messaging uses
different spelling from
school projects.
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12. *Discussing favourite
authors, producers,
directors or illustrators
and what you like
about them.
• Discussing new and
unusual words or
phrases and exploring
these through print
and electronic
dictionaries.
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13. Task 1: Prepare your presentation

14. INSTRUCTIONS
• Get in pairs.
• Discuss What do you understand by literacy nowadays?
• Choose a topic from the textbook. (Teaching listening,
reading, writing and speaking) Pages 102-142. / 204-…
• Prepare a presentation taking into account how we can
teach the different skills.
• The presentation will be of maximum 12 minutes.
• You have 60 mins to prepare and be ready to present to
the class.
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15. Task 2: Presenting to the class.

16. SUMMARIZING
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How do you promote literacy in
your classroom?

17. * http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/language-objectives-key-effective-
content-area-instruction-english-learners
* http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/literacy
* http://www.edutopia.org/blog/literacy-practices-we-should-abandon-nell-k-duke
Elementary reading.
* http://www.vdoe.whro.org/early_literacy/ER01/ER01.swf
Alphabet Matching
*http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp?camp
aign=flyout_teachers_puzzle_wordcross
Blending and Segmenting Games
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-OKTQtFbLs
* Watch jigsaw in action
Go inside Cathy Doyle's second grade classroom in Evanston, Illinois to observe
her students use the jigsaw strategy to understand the topic of gardening more
deeply and share what they have learned. Joanne Meier, our research director,
introduces the strategy and talks about the importance of advanced planning
and organization to make this strategy really effective.
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/jigsaw#watch
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SOME USEFUL LINKS ABOUT THE TOPIC

18. LET’S LEARN MORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iOlM9XdOYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcwT3sdW960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qaBPthrUqs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7hclODi7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKc4I-YxepQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ql7wHgsjSs
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19. A TPR STORY TELLING SAMPLE
“A LITTLE BOY”
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20. Updating your e-blog