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21st Century Literacies: Tools for Reading the World
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n Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium.
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ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
In this activity, students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives. In class discussion, students support their lists with details from the novel.
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Daily Lesson Plan
Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students will learn about key genetics terms. Through creating and acting out skits depicting each term, students will achieve a better understanding of the significance of these terms in the study of genetics.
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Learning Resources
The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories. The Western/Pacific Literacy Network and the CNN San Francisco bureau have partnered to develop an online literacy site that benefits all learners and instructors. This material is intended for adult literacy and educational purposes.
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BBC - Skillswise Words - Read all about it! Making more interesting sentences using adjectives
You've got a new job on the Skillswise Echo. Can you make the adverts more interesting?
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