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Topics for todayWikiMeaningful and Constructive LiteracyAssessing Concepts about print
WikiThis is our course shell and you need to be
checking it and your e-mail on a regular basis.
Where to find informationEditing a pageCommentingNotifications
Knowing Literacy- JigsawUsing the Key Concepts Organizer that you
filled out for your 3 chapters we will do the follow:Meet with the others who read the same chapters
Discuss the 5 key concepts that you each came up with
Get into groups of 4; one of each number in a group
Jigsaw each of your sections so that each member of the group has an understanding of each section
Concepts About PrintCAP refers to knowledge of the distinctive
features of print textChildren also develop concepts of other literate
forms and how they work (hypertext, downloading, etc)
In many ways, concepts about PRINT is outdated. We should be talking about concepts about literacy.
CAP will change depending on the writing system of the language
Children are not born with an understanding of these concepts
Procedures for CAP and other alternativesBrowse Clay’s CAP, watch videoCritiques of the CAP assessment (see
Johnston, ch. 12)Alternatives for assessing CAP
Print Awareness Checklist (Johnston, pp. 102-103)
Johns & Lenski, p. 87-88
For ThursdayTopics: Linguistic Diversity; review of the
cueing systemsReadings: IR- p.273-4; Codeswitching article
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Six Language ArtsReview of the Cueing SystemsReading with Linguistically diverse students
The Six Language ArtsSpeakingListeningReadingWritingViewingVisually Representing
These rarely stand alone, particularly with the advent of new digital literacies
How do humans learn language?Language development begins in the
wombHearing mother’s voiceIntonations, the “sounds” of language
Repetition of words and soundsMessages are important; mistakes are not
Meaning is the heart of languageCreates a risk-free environment for children to
experiment with languageLanguage and identity are inseparable
Family language and literacy practices vary greatly and therefore each child’s literacy enculturation is unique.
Language is used for and within specific social practices
Knowing that literacy acquisition is social, how do we engage students in meaningful, authentic activities and connect with families?
Language Acquisition as Social
Information, Strategies, tools and technologies used to accomplish daily life
Characteristics of people in an activity; they become a part of a child’s history
Knowledge is obtained rather than imposed by adults
Defining literacy based on political or institutional discourses limits access of learning to children
Funds of Knowledge
Who Defines the Standard“It is axiomatic that if Black people were in power in this country, Black English would be the prestige idiom. This is a point which cannot be stressed too often, for frequently we find even Black students themselves with a negative image of they speech. They too have been brainwashed about the ‘inherent and Absolute rightness’ of white, middle-class dialect” (Smitherman, 2000, pp. 128-129).
Because historically people with means (i.e. rich people,white people, and people from the north) have been in power, their ways of speaking have become the “standard” on which all other forms are judged.
Codeswitching
Codeswitching discussionUsing the discussion organizer that you
completed while reading, please discuss the reading in your small groupsBe sure to discuss the nine questions on your
discussion notes formWe will come back as a large group to touch
on your small group discussions
Possessive PatternsInformal English
Taylor cat is black.The boy coat is torn.A giraffe neck is long.Did you see the
teacher pen?
Pattern: owner + owned
Formal English
Taylor’s cat is blackThe boy’s coat is torn.A giraffe’s neck is
long.Did you see the
teacher’s pen?
Pattern: owner (+apostrophe-s) +owned
In a lesson on contractions, Joyce, a second year teacher, read Green Eggs and Ham, and then had her students make contractions with the text. In a post-reading activity, she gave them each a word (such as “can” or “not”) and had them join up with another student to build a contraction written on the backs of their words (“can’t). One student, Leslie, built her contraction (do+not=don’t) with another student, and then successfully used their contraction in a sentence in front of the class. A couple of minutes later when Joyce and a parent volunteer went to the front of the room to present their contraction, the class got a bit noisy. Leslie, in her booming voice, shouted to the other students, “Be quiet! The queen talkin’!” (the “queen” being Joyce). The class, indeed, got very quiet. Joyce gave Leslie a good humored glare to suggest that shouting was inappropriate, but did not comment on nor “correct” Leslie's English. (October, 2003)
DiscussionLeslie used African American Vernacular
English (AAVE) grammar, in which the verb “to be” is implied, so the Standard English contraction (queen’s) was not needed.
There can be more than one social context at play in a classroomWhat were the social contexts in this
vignette?How does this vignette differ from “Say
‘ask,’ Deneese”?
Engage in role play to lower the affective filter
Position, your students as linguistsUnless the focus of your lesson is on an
aspect of Standard English grammar, do not comment on students’ language form.
Teach grammatical differences in formal and informal mini-lessons
Use Contrastive AnalysisAnalyze grammar for patternsContrast; not correctionTeach children and signal to them when they
need to “flip the switch,” or codeswitch
Instructional implications
Making Sense of TextsCueing systems can be thought of as different
language resources, or information stores, that a person can draw on as they make sense of texts
The cueing systems are not used in isolation!Successful readers never use only graphophonics, or
only semantics, or only one other cueing system when they read.
Successful reading and writing involves the meaningful integration of multiple cueing systems.
Relate this to the readings for today
How do children use the cueing systems?Effective teachers know that children use
all four cueing systems when engaged in literacy activitiesExample
However, in any given circumstance, when trying to decipher a difficult text, one cueing system might be emphasized or relied upon more than the others.Example
Syntactic SystemHow words and parts of words are
combined into sentences Word order Tense Number Gender
How words and parts of speech go together to sound like meaningful language
Structural rules of a language--grammar
Phonological SystemThe symbol systems of oral and written
language and the relationship between them. Phonics – Relationship between phonological
and orthographic (spelling) systems (letter-sound correspondence)
This cueing system deals with the smallest chunks of language:Phonemes (units of sound)graphemes (units of written representation of
phonemes)
Semantic SystemRelationships between language and
meaning, the heart of language;Focus is on vocabulary: What words and
phrases meanSynonyms, antonyms, homonyms
Strongly related to social and cultural groupSoda vs. popMilk shake vs. frappeSub vs. hoagie
Pragmatic SystemFunction of language: Dependent on
the social, cultural, and historical contexts of language use
What we know about how and when to change language to particular social settings
“Is your mother there?” (in a phone conversation) – implies “I’d like to speak to your mother.”
Text: Sarah’s brother, who was only twelve and didn’t yet know how to drive, crashed the car on the side of the street.Reader 1: Sarah’s brother, who was only twelve and didn’t
yet know how to drive, crushed the car on the side of the street.
Reader 2: Sarah’s br- broker, who was only twenty and didn’t know how to dr- drip, crasled the car on the side of the st- steps.
Reader 3: Sarah bruvver, who was only twelve and didn’t yet know how to drive, crash the car on the side of the street.
Reader 4: Sarah’s brother, who was only twelve and didn’t know how to drive a car, crashed the car on the side of the road.
Reader 5: Sara’s brohther, who was only… twelve? and deedin’t yet k-now…know how to dreeveh…drive, crash the car on the side of the street.
What cueing systems are these readers using? Which reader(s) would you consider successful? Why? What other information could you use about these children?
For next timeKL: Ch 21-22Running Records and Miscue Analysis