Comprehensive Literacy
Program.
"Effective teaching draws on current research and practice and depends on the
teacher as professional to provide learners the balance of skills, strategies,
materials, and social and emotional support they need. Instructing, demonstrating,
discussing, coaching, and discovering are all part of this model. In addition,
teaching for understanding is integral to everything we do, beginning with our
youngest learner."
Regie
Routman, Conversations, Heinemann, 2000, pg. 15
“In order to be truly literate, students need to be experienced
in the three strands of language: oral, written and visual. Within
these strands are the sub-strands of speaking, listening, writing,
and reading, presenting and viewing.”
Jill Eggleton and Jo Windsor,
Linking
the Language Strands,
Heinemann, 2004, pg. 5
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“Gradually releasing responsibility to children as they gain
expertise, teaching a few strategies of great consequence in depth over
time, and giving children the gifts of time, choice, response, community,
and structured guide my work and allow me to make thoughtful decisions
based on principles I believe in.”
Debbie Miller,
Reading with Meaning,
Scholastic Canada, 2002, pg. 6 |
“Thoughtful literacy is more than remembering what the text
is said. It is engaging the ideas, challenging those ideas, reflecting
on them, and so on. It is responding to a story with giggles, goosebumps,
anger, or revulsions.”
Richard L. Allington,
What
Really Matter for
Struggling Readers,
Pearson, 2006, pg. 135
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“Real comprehension has to do with thinking,
learning and expanding a reader’s knowledge and horizons.” Susan Zimmermann, Chryse Hutchins,
7 Keys to Comprehension,
Three Rivers
Press, 2003, pg. 7
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