Course+Readings

What is it about language and literacy we (you) are trying to understand? What frameworks might provide insight? ||  ||   || Introduction to theories and Models Orientations to Literacy || Tracey & Morrow Ch. 1 [|Scribner "Literacy in Three Metaphors"] [|Gee “What is Literacy?”] || __In class:__ Group meetings to organize Seminar Leaders and Mini Inquiries ||  || Theories of Literacy Development – Sameroff article (Moodle) Family Literacy Theory - Denny Taylor - "Growing Up Literate" (Moodle) ||  ||   || Library Research Orientation || Online discussion: Tracey & Morrow Ch. 3 [|E.H. Hiebert "Text Matters in Learning to Read"] || Meet at 4:30 at the top of the big central staircase inside DH Hill Library near the Main Circulation / Reserves Desk ||  || Reading Process/Reading Comprehension Theory || Tracey & Morrow Ch. 8, 9 [|Stanovich, K. E. [1980 "Towards an interactive-compensatory model of individual differences in the development of reading fluency." In Reading Research Quarterly 16: 32-71]] Anderson's Schema Theory (see Moodle) Reading Comprehension (see Moodle) For our seminar presentation we are asking for everyone to sign up for a cognitive processing model. We are hoping that 2 people sign up for each model. Please add your name to the chart for the model that you would like to focus on. Please add a number if we need more than 2 people per model. For your reading response, we are asking that you create a graphic representation of the model. See page 165 in the Tracy& Morrow text for an example with the Parallel distributed processing model. Also reference the reading response section of the wiki for more info on the graphic representation.We will be using technology during the lesson. Please bring your laptop if you can. Come to class ready to share and discuss. Thanks! || **Seminar Leaders #1**
 * Tentative agenda of class meetings**
 * **Date / Topic** ||||  ||   ||
 * ^  || **Readings** || **Assignments** ||   ||
 * 1 Aug 1 || Course Introduction
 * 2 Aug 25
 * **3** Sept 1
 * Guest Speaker:**
 * [|Dr. Steve Amendum]** || Tracey & Morrow Ch. 5
 * 4 Sept 8
 * 5 Sept 15
 * Amy, Meghan, Christine** ||  ||
 * ^  || ======Interactive-compensatory model ======

||  ||   ||   ||   || Culture and Diversity || ‍‍‍‍‍ [|//Other People’s Children// by Delpit] ‍‍‍‍‍ Suggested Reading: [|Ladson-Billings, G. (1995). //Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy//. American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3. pp. 465-491] || **Seminar Leaders #2 Brady, Nicole, Sarah** ||  || Literary theories/ Reader Response || Tracey & Morrow Ch. 4 ‍‍‍‍‍[|Rosenblatt //The Reader, the Text, The Poem//] Suggested Reading: Sipe, L. R. The construction of literary understanding by first and second graders in oral response to picture storybook readalouds. Reading Research Quarterly, 35, 252-275. (geared to young readers) or [|Langer, J.] (worked with secondary students) || **Seminar Leaders #3 Mark, Pam, & Melissa** ||  || Social Learning Perspectives || Tracey & Morrow Ch. 6 Excerpts from Vygotsky McIntyre –chapter in handbook Moll and Gonzalez "Funds of Knowledge" ||  ||   || Transmediation, Reading and Writing || Siegel [|Rereading the Signs] Sumara //Reading and the making of identity// Kress //Writing in Multimodal Texts//
 * || Link to Dipity timeline for use in class ||
 * ^  || [|__http://www.dipity.com/mkliebfreund/Reading-Comprehension/__] ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 6 Sept 22
 * 7 Sept 29
 * Oct 6 || **No class – Fall Break** ||  ||   ||
 * 8 Oct 13
 * 9 Oct 20

Tracey & Morrow Ch. 7 (optional) || **Seminar Leaders #4 April, Clarice & Beth** ||  || Critical Literacy Perspectives
 * 10 Oct 27

[|//Pedagogy of the Oppressed// by Friere]
 * Guest Speaker:**
 * [|Dr. Ellen McIntyre]** || ‍‍‍‍‍

See Seminar of the Oppressed Page || **Seminar Leaders #5** Tanya Watson ||  || Gender and Literacy || bell hooks //Teaching to Transgress// Cherland & Harper "Radical CounterNarratives in Literacy Research I: Femininist and Queer Theory(ies) Feminist article choice (pick one on moodle or find your own!)
 * 11 Nov 3

(on Moodle) || **Prominent Researcher Presentations (Group 1)**

Final paper conference
 * Bring your research questions and possible resources** ||  ||
 * 12 Nov 10

New Literacies/Multiliteracies || Don Leu's On-line Comprehension article New London Groups Multiliteracy Article NLS article choice (pick one on moodle or find your own!)

(on Moodle)

excerpt from //Schools Out!// || **Prominent Researcher Presentations (Group 2)**


 * Prominent Researcher Paper due** ||  ||
 * 13 Nov 17

Allington Theme || see Moodle

14- Final presentation
 * Meet at the Friday Institute in the BB&T Room 109 from 3-6.** || **Class will meet at Friday Institute from 3-6?** ||  ||
 * 13 Dec 1 || No class ||  ||   ||

December 8th 4:10


 * Final Presentations**