Layered Literacy

Get insights into how to build units, working incrementally to combine and apply literacy skills. Join Bryan for an interactive session where he’ll demonstrate ways to weave reading, writing, and oral language practices into layered instruction that fosters skill development in all of the aspects.  

You are invited to bring:

highlighter(s)

A couple of different coloured pens 

A device 

I am From Poetry

“Where I’m From: Inviting Students’ Lives into the Classroom” – Article from Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word by Linda Christensen – Where Im From Poems

Developing the skills to create “I am From” poems Process for I Am From poems

I Want to Be (Poetic Prose) to rehearse poetic language and imagery- I want to be text

Student Examples of poetic prose – I want to be Student Samples

Examples of I am From Poems to use as a catalyst / recognizing similarities themes in examples – I am From Examples as catalyst

Student Samples of I am From Poems – I am From Student Samples.docx

Once categories have been determined, students can brainstorm connections, memories, items that fit the categories – Planning sheet We are From

Differentiating Between Fears and Phobias

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