The document discusses the importance of literacy, specifically reading and writing, across all subject areas in the classroom. It notes that students need skills to comprehend content-area texts and that all teachers should provide reading opportunities. When reading and writing instruction are combined, it leads to deeper learning than either process alone. The document also provides strategies and frameworks to help increase student literacy, including having students actively engage with texts through discussions, questions, and connecting ideas to their own lives and experiences.

1. LITERACY IN THE CLASSROOM RAMS In-service , October 12, 2009

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9. Reflection on Literacy

10. “ This is the point behind the point about literacy. What matters, in our age, is not just that people read for information, or for amusement, or for whatever else the television screen and computer terminal can alternately provide. It is that they read for wisdom, for depth, for a conscious acquaintance with the values and judgments of great thinkers thinking greatly. The tragedy of illiteracy – and the even greater waste of alliteracy, involving those who know how to read seriously but don’t – is that it abandons the accumulated wisdom of the ages. It places fine writing in the hands of fewer and fewer interpreters, whose translations and commentaries become progressively oversimplified – and whose audience, increasingly unable to think for itself, grows more and more susceptible to the manipulations of the elite. “ Are we headed, then, backwards into the pre-print attitudes of the Middle Ages, when the literate few ruled the illiterate many? Our sense of democracy should rise in rebellion at such a notion. To avert such backsliding, [our educational focus] must be given over to two things: training people how to read and teaching them why they should want to read…” By Rushworth Kidder

14. The Four Lenses Learning

22. An Effective Model of Engagement Independent Activity Whole Group, Mini lesson, lecture, etc. Independent or Small Group Whole Class Independent Activity Pair Share

31. Final Thoughts

32. “ Meaning doesn’t arrive because we have highlighted text or used sticky notes or written the right words on a comprehension worksheet. Meaning arrives because we are purposefully engaged in thinking while we read.” Cris Tovani Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12. (2004)

33. To participate fully in society and the workplace in 2020, citizens will need powerful literacy abilities that until now have been achieved by only a small percentage of the population. National Council on Teachers of English Standards for the English Language Arts