L 517 Brozo - Motivation

pg 133-162
7 Guidelines for Creating Motivating Contexts for Literacy & Learning

1. Elevate Self-Efficacy
2. Engender Interest in Learning
3. Generate situational interest (for a particular lesson)
4. Connect outside- with inside-school literacies and learning
5. Make an abundance of Interesting Texts available
6. Expand Student Choices and Options
7. Structure Collaboration for Motivation

What might get in the way?

1. students who come to HS already defeated - feeling like they can't succeed in reading - providing enough background knowledge to be successful- or choosing activities in the communities in which students have a great deal of bg knowledge
   
2. active participants vs passive learning, how does it relate to their lives, provide opps for enjoyable reading
3. time, money/resources, assessment pressures
   

L 517 Brozo CH 2 - PRincipled Practices for Effective Reading and Learning

pg 23 - Literacy and content area learning strategies are effective only when they are applied in appropriate ways and not as a "one-size-fits-all" approach.

Principles that Promote engaged Reading and Learning
1. Connect everyday literacies and funds of knowledge with academic literacy and learning.
2. Use assessment as a tool for learning and future growth - CATs
3. Engage and sustain effort in reading, writing, and thinking
4. Express critical perspectives and interpretations
5.Gather and organize print and non-print sources for increasing understanding of information and ideas
6. Expand and generate new understandings using information and communication techniques

L 517: Tovani CH 1

FEwer strategies are better if taught well and used meaningfully

Use of real questions when interacting with text.

Good readers monitor their comprehension - recognize when confused and do something to repair it.

Thinking strategies
1. Activating backgruond knowledge - connect new to known
2. Self-questioning to clarify
3. Drawing inferences
4. Determining what's most important in text vs details
5. using fix-up strategies to repair confusion
6. Use sensory visualization to enhance comprehension
7. Synthesizing and extending thinking

Fix-up strategies- how to get unstuck when text gets confusing
1. Make a connection between text and - your life, knowledge of world, another text
2. make a prediction
3. stop and think about what you've read
4. Ask yourself a question and try to answer it
5. reflect in writing what you've read
6. visualize
7. use print conventions
8. re-tell what you;ve read
9. re-read
10. Notice patterns in text structure
11.Adjust your reading rate - slow down or speed up - look for definitions in text.

As content teachers - think of your role as teaching content but also teaching students how to remember and reuse the info we ask them to read.

Why teach strategies? To help them be more thoughtful about their reading - meaning arrives because we are purposefully engaged in thinking while we read... (pg 9)

Adolescent Literacy: Brozo CH 1Adol Literacies and identity

"Adolescence is marked by an active and self-conscious process of identity construction" (pg 7)

4th grade slump - they lose interest in more formal academic endeavors..."As young people become more cognitively astute and self-aware they seek contexts that support their growing sense of autonomy, desire fr social networking, and identity development." (pg 8)

What works?
Offer a curriculum that is responsive to the interest and abilities they b ring to school and pays attention to who they are as individuals.

Language, culture, and identity are intertwined...

Literacy in everyday lives of youth-IM, Internet, compu games, using tech like MP3s

Schools should make room for the ways student discourse has changed - expressed through variety of media...
What counts as literacy?" (pg 13) Help them translate the familiar to the unfamiliar - literacy on their terms to literacy in academic arenas...

Dispelling stereotypes about adolescents and thinking of possibilities.