Literacy Leader Presentation

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Given that I am currently doing my Masters program, we are constantly in the process of learning, discussing and producing artifacts. The most recent course that I completed was PME 841 Critical Foundations of Literacy. For our final assignment we needed to produce a 9 slide assignment (barring the title page and resource page) outlining three different Literacy concepts, what they are, why they are important and then outlining one or more teaching strategies for each. 

Since the school that I teach at is comprised almost entirely of students learning English as an Additional Language, and we frequently get students who are new to English in our classrooms, I thought I'd focus on the K-Grade 3 audience, and the audience of those teaching students who are new to English. 

The first two concepts I looked at are related: "Phonological Awareness" and "Phonemic Awareness." My slides define Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness and Phonics, so that practitioners can be made better aware of what each of these are / entail and how they are related to each other. The third and extremely important literacy concept I looked at was "Reading Engagement.

The slides for this presentation are below, and I am hoping to present this information later this year to any teachers that may gain some wisdom from this information. 


As I am already a reading specialist, I am no stranger to sharing information about the teaching of reading, and I've even done a Words their Way Workshop in the past. At schools that admit many students who are new to English, getting students learning English, understanding English and enjoying the process of reading, are all fundamentals in order for them to be successful students at an English medium school, so I'm hoping this presentation may help some teachers as they build their own knowledge and schema.


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