Category Archives: Literary Foundations

Why is literacy important? Learners need literacy in order to engage with the written word in everyday life… Being able to read and write means being able to keep up with current events, communicate effectively, and understand the issues that are shaping our world.

Additional Resources for extended learning: Arlington National CemeteryMore than 260,000 people are buried at Arlington Cemetery. Veterans from all the nation’s wars are buried in the cemetery, from the American Revolution through the Persian Gulf War and Somalia. Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred after 1900. American War DeadThe American Battle Monument Commission maintains this listContinue reading “Literary Foundations: Interviews”

When it comes to helping children learn to read, experts say the role of audiobooks is twofold: to help children with the process of identifying words by modeling fluent reading and expanding their vocabulary, as well as helping motivate new or struggling readers by giving them a taste of how fun reading can be.

Why is literacy important? Learners need literacy skills in order to engage with the written word in everyday life… Being able to read and write means being able to keep up with current events, communicate effectively, and understand the issues that are shaping our world.

Why is literacy important? Learners need literacy in order to engage with the written word in everyday life… Being able to read and write means being able to keep up with current events, communicate effectively, and understand the issues that are shaping our world.

Today’s literary skill: Today’s discussion will have a focus on Washington State history and the use of map skills. Spatial thinking is a skill that allows us to process and comprehend the places and spaces around us (geography, global perceptions, Earth and environmental sciences). It deepens our ability to value and engage with history (time).Continue reading “Literary Foundations: Mapping Skills”

Why is literacy important? Learners need literacy in order to engage with the written word in everyday life… Being able to read and write means being able to keep up with current events, communicate effectively, and understand the issues that are shaping our world.

Family literary connection: Today’s discussion is focused on the fictional adventures that are written for a reader’s discovery and enjoyment. Family adventures can be small moments or great adventurous vacations. The sense of an adventure helped us to crawl and toddle around our homes. Consider a family road trip, it can be a different adventureContinue reading “Literary Foundations: Adventure Fiction”

Form a question: Research should be targeted; develop a question you want to answer before progressing any further. Decide on resources: Not every resource is good for every question/problem. Back to school… what do you want to learn this year? What would you like to know more about? What is an investigation that you neverContinue reading “Literary Foundations: Resourcing”