Reading, Writing, Marking, & Difficulty: Re-Reading Salvatori in Light of Digital Writing Practices At tomorrow’s pedagogy workshop here on campus (2.17.10), we’ll be reading and discussing Mariolina Salvatori’s College English article “Conversations with Texts: Reading in the Teaching of Composition” (1996). While acknowledging that I’m oversimplifying, I want to mention four important points in the article, and think through them (now, 14 years later) in terms of pedagogy inflected by digital writing tools. Salvatori herself describes the project of her article as “an argument on behalf of the theoretical and practical appropriateness of using ‘reading’ as a means of teaching ‘writing’” (441). Within this frame, she works through several related ideas; I’d like to think though the following four: 1. 2. 3. 4. I want to think through some of these ideas in terms of a variety of contemporary digital writing practices. 1a. 2a. 3a and 4a. Bibliography:
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Tulare County Office of Education - Visalia, California Adventures in Literacy Land E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Eric Donald Hirsch, Jr. (born March 22, 1928) is an American educator and academic literary critic. Now retired, he was until recently the University Professor of Education and Humanities and the Linden Kent Memorial Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Virginia. He is best known for his writings about cultural literacy. Life and works[edit] Education and early life[edit] Hirsch was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of a prosperous Jewish cotton merchant. The Romantics[edit] Hirsch began his academic career as a Yale English professor and a scholar of the Romantic poets. Hermeneutics[edit] The next phase of Hirsch's career centered on questions of literary interpretation and hermeneutics. Hirsch also took issue with Gadamer's Heideggerian hermeneutics, Barthes' concept of "the death of the author," and Derrida's deconstruction. Composition[edit] From Composition to Cultural Literacy[edit] Hirsch's work on composition led to a major shift in his career. Works[edit]
Common Core Connect Mary's Blog | Easy and Effective Activities for the Busy Teacher Hello Literacy Writing and Reading Connections Between Language by Hand and Language by Eye Todd Richards Abstract Four approaches to the investigation of connections between language by hand and language by eye are described and illustrated with studies from a decade-long research program. In the first approach, multigroup structural equation modeling is applied to reading and writing measures given to typically developing writers to examine unidirectional and bidirectional relationships between specific components of the reading and writing systems. In the second approach, structural equation modeling is applied to a multivariate set of language measures given to children and adults with reading and writing disabilities to examine how the same set of language processes is orchestrated differently to accomplish specific reading or writing goals, and correlations between factors are evaluated to examine the level at which the language-by-hand system and the language-by-eye system communicate most easily.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative The Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) Interactive Map by iMapBuilder The Common Core State Standards: Development, Adoption, and ImplementationThe Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of high quality academic expectations in English-language arts (ELA) and mathematics that define the knowledge and skills all students should master by the end of each grade level in order to be on track for success in college and career. The development of the standards was a state-led effort spearheaded by governors and school chiefs. CCSSO and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices coordinated the development process in partnership with Achieve, ACT, and the College Board. A diverse team of teachers, parents, administrators, researchers and content experts developed the CCSS to be academically rigorous, attainable for students, and practical for teachers and districts, and an expert validation committee provided an independent review of the standards.
literacy beat | Literacy, technology, intersections Teaching Basic Writing Online At the San Francisco State campus of the California State University (CSU) where I teach, nearly half the entering class of first year students place into developmental level English courses based on their score on a systemwide English Placement Test. We know, from data accumulated from over 20 years of EPT administrations, that it is their performance on the reading section the test that disproportionately accounts for their placement in developmental level English classes. At virtually all CSU campuses, this means students enroll in a writing course to address their difficulties with reading. On my campus, we have, up until 5 years ago, tried to address this problem by offering a one-unit reading course concurrent with a 3-unit BW course. Meanwhile, the “perpetual crisis” (Shor) that basic writing seems to find itself in has most recently manifested in legislative acts (e.g., California and New York) that strictly curtail BW instruction or eliminate it altogether. Sources