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.
Category Archives: Literary Foundations
Literary Foundations: Weather Reports
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.
Literary Foundations: Bear Research
Literary Foundations: Story Elements
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.
Reading Investigations: Story Mapping
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.
Literary Foundations: Resourcing
Literary Foundations: Mapping Skills
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”
Literary Foundations: Constitution Day 9/17/1787
Literary Foundations: Primary Sources
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. Why should we care about primary sourcing? Gaining understanding helps usContinue reading “Literary Foundations: Primary Sources”
Literary Foundations: Reading Fluency
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.