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=**Literacy Learning Centers**=

Welcome to the literacy wikispace developed for this course. You will complete four stations during your time in the seminar, two today and two the next time. On the pages that follow, you will find a series of strategies that will help you support your students with reading, writing, and thinking during your interdisciplinary unit. The strategies are divided into five sections: strategies to use before, during, and after reading, vocabulary, and writing. Some of these strategies, such as a quick write, fit into more than one section.

Each team has a page on which to document their work with the strategies. Each section has a practice task for you to try. Please record your work with the strategy, and your subsequent reflection, on your team page. This way, you will have a place to view your work and also to get a glimpse of what the other groups worked on.

A few thoughts about using strategies: -we are all teachers of reading...in our discipline -students need help activating metacognition (thinking about thinking) -literacy strategies are excellent differentiation tools for all students -literacy strategies help students internalize good reading skills -literacy strategies can help to raise engagement levels and increase motivation

Literacy Matrix: A list of effective literacy strategies and when you should use them. [|AdLit.org]: A website that houses a host of adolescent literacy resources including strategies, articles, videos, and current research. [|Greece Central School Disctrict:] This district has a comprehensive reading strategies on their website. It is fantastic. [|Read, Write, Think:] This organization provides lesson plans linked to specific literacy skills. [|The Knowledge Loom:] Focus on adolescent literacy. [|The Lexile Framework for Reading]: If you don't know about using Lexile in your classroom, go here for resources. Lexile is a text readability measure. If you are doing NWEAs or the SRI with your students, your students' information should be available for you.
 * Resources:** Here are a few resources that are always useful.