The Secondary Literacy Lab is a program that enhances literacy development and English proficiency for multilingual high school students. It also provides hands-on teaching experience for pre-service teachers. The Lab creates a learning environment where pre-service teachers design lesson plans to engage students one-on-one or in small groups as they read novels and practice literacy skills together in a comfortable setting.

1. SECONDARY LITERACY LAB

2. The Secondary Literacy Lab
Is a program designed to enhance the literacy development and English
proficiency for multilingual secondary students.

3. The
Secondary
Literacy
Lab also
provides
hands on
experience
for
secondary
pre-service
teachers.

4. The Secondary
Literacy Lab
creates a
learning
environment for
both pre-
service
teachers and
high school
students.

5. The Lab
provides a
comfortable
environment
in which
students can
strive to be
the best they
can be!

6. Pre-service teachers chose
to work with the novel Bless
Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

7. Students read the novel during the camp and have
activities to strengthen their literacy skill.

8. Pre-service teachers make effective lesson plans to
keep the student engaged.

9. Pre-service teachers are divided into groups according to
their field. This picture shows the English, Math, and
Science groups.

10. High school students are assigned to one pre-service teacher
each, which facilitates a one-on-one session.

11. The one-on-
one
interaction
creates
meaningful
bonding
which
facilitates the
teaching and
learning
process.

12. Each pre-
service teacher
creates
different lesson
plans to fit the
need of their
student .

13. After the students read and finish their classwork , everyone
discuses the book openly.

14. The Secondary Literacy Lab has attracted visitors from
other Universities around the country.

15. Students
working
while a
visitor
takes
notes.

16. Students are
discussing what they
have learned that
day.

17. Pre-Service
teachers are
reading along
with the
students to
maximize
output.

18. Pre-service
teachers and
students working
together.

19. The Literacy Lab provides meaningful opportunities for
students and pre-service teachers in a comfortable learning
environment.