INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #10 (23 mins)
Develop a literacy identity that promotes lifelong learning.
• Provide opportunities for students to view themselves as lifelong learners who take an active role in their literacy development, understanding they impact and are impacted by their interactions with text
• Carole Mullins, NBCT and Reb…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #9 (31 mins)
Apply high level cognitive processes to think deeply and critically about text.
• Help students must move beyond basic comprehension and interact more deeply with the text
• By applying synthesis, analysis, reflection and other higher order thinking skills, students are equipped to examine text cri…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #6-7 (37 mins)
#6: Collaborate with others to create meaning. #7: Utilize digital resources to learn and share with others.
• Help students learn to interact with others in order to confirm, challenge or shape their views and ideas
• Know how to effectively produce and critically consume digital information
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INTRODUCTION TO THE 10 INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICES (18 mins)
• Understanding the purpose and function of the practices
• Carole Mullins, NBCT

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #1 (32 mins)
Recognize that text is anything that communicates a message.
• Expand traditional knowledge about text to include visual, auditory & digital sources
• Use sources across disciplines to provide increasingly rigorous opportunities for students to interpret messages communicated through different med…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #2 (29 mins)
Employ, develop, and refine schema to understand create text.
• Through the use of multiple texts and interdisciplinary content, activate students’ schema. Provide opportunities for developing new connections, applying specialized vocabulary and reflecting on new understandings
• Appropriate for K…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #3 (30 mins)
View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• When students’ literacy experiences cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, their knowledge is expanded and relevant
• Students’ interactions with text become transformational when they are motivated to purs…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #4 (30 mins)
Utilize receptive and expressive language arts to better understand self, others and the world. View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• Experiencing both receptive (i.e., listening, reading and viewing) and expressive (i.e., speaking, writing and v…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #5 (38 mins)
Apply strategic practices, with scaffolding and then independently, to approach new literacy tasks.
• Help students to strategically approach literacy tasks in order to make intentional decisions about when, where and how to apply thinking and learning processes
• Independence and tra…Read More

Composition Video Resources Link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vIg6dkOjgATOSbQCosjIiKQFMGGIqzs1?usp=sharing

KAS for Reading and Writing Video Series: EPISODES 1-5 RESOURCES LINK:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XaizNuJf-tWqMK0CLJU86EZ08xzOabfI

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