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- Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy
- Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Media Literacy
- How do you know if something is true? How can you figure out if someone is trying to influence or sell to you? Put yourself in their shoes and consider the source! Check out this selection of websites from our Best of the Web.
- Format: bibliography/help
- It's an ad!
- How do marketers target kids — and how can we teach kids to know the difference between advertising and fact? These websites provide strategies to build critical thinking skills for media literate kids.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Nepali school children
- Students at a public school in the mountains of Nepal. A 2001 census counted 26,000 secondary schools in Nepal and literacy is greatly on the rise throughout the country. But despite such advancs, educational management, quality, relevance, and access are...
- Format: image/photograph
- Critical literacy
- Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. This article outlines the history and theory of critical literacy and details its application in the classroom.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Reading picture books
- Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Resources for looking at art
- A guide to some of the best websites, activities, and print resources for building visual literacy through the study of art.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Story shackles: Linking students to written text
- Chain your students to reading a given text critically! Story Shackles is an imaginative and stimulating way for students to acquire the ability to retell events of a story or text, sequence the action or happenings in a story, or to simply summarize the plot, main ideas with supporting details, or general information of a story or text.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Rector.
- Resources for teaching with photographs
- Websites, activities, books, and image collections for classroom use.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Think for yourself! Media literacy every day
- Information, like air, is everywhere, and we breathe it in whether we mean to or not. If we want our students to be rational, responsible citizens and consumers, we have to help them develop a filter they can use all the time, not just when they're doing research.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The middle school challenge for English language learners of Mexican origin
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 3.2
- English language learners of Mexican origin face numerous challenges in American middle schools, including cultural segregation and assumptions made by schools regarding the students' educational backgrounds. This article offers strategies for educators to help students overcome those challenges.
- Format: article
- By Mary Faith Mount-Cors.
- Children's literature promotes understanding
- Bibliotherapy and critical literacy are two ways to use books to help children better understand themselves, others, and the world around them. This article explains both strategies and provides resources for selecting appropriate books.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Culturally relevant teaching
- Culturally relevant teaching is a term created by Gloria Ladson-Billings (1994) to describe "a pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes."
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Trick or truth: Recognizing the hottest trends in advertising
- Students will study commercials and advertising techniques, will work in groups to select different types of ads from magazines, and make a collage to illustrate one of the ten techniques advertisers use.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Kathy Idol.
- Reading comprehension: What works?
- Teach reading comprehension in the elementary grades with flexible strategies that connect reading to the real world, promote independence, and keep students engaged.
- By Mary Rogers Rose.
- Bullfighting in Colombia
- In this lesson for grade six, students study the history of bullfighting in Spain and Colombia as an example of how cultural traditions can be transferred from one place to another. Students analyze photographs of bullfighting in Colombia and discuss the cultural tradition of the sport and the controversy surrounding it.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Eric Eaton.
- The student pathfinder
- By creating pathfinders, students not only learn to manage time and produce a higher quality research project, but they also develop twenty-first century learning skills.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Reading photographs
- A picture is worth a thousand words — but which words? Questions can help students decode, interpret, and understand photographs thoughtfully and meaningfully.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Funds of knowledge
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 2.1
- Teachers can use "funds of knowledge," the knowledge students gain from their family and cultural backgrounds, to make their classrooms more inclusive.
- By Janet Kier Lopez.
- Persuasive speaking: A classroom model
- In Arts of persuasion, page 3
- A plan for teaching persuasive speaking in the middle school classroom, with tips for speakers and on how to recognize bias.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
