Archive for the ‘literacy’ Category
Where can I get a paper copy of The National Literacy Strategy?
I’m in my fifth year of teaching and moving to a new school. My copy of the National literacy strategy belonged to my previous school and I need to get hold of a copy of my own. Does anyone know where I order this from? What I need are the key objectives for Years 4, 5 and 6
Thank you!
you can’t get paper copies any more, it’s all on-line since the new version which is going to be scrapped in a couple of years anyway and good riddance
Reformed Jail – India
June 1994
Pitiful faces peer from the bars of overcrowded cells in one of India’s most notorious jails. Delhi’s Tihar Jail has almost 9,000 prisoners and, until recently, some of India’s most appalling conditions. Now, thanks to a radical reformer called Keran Bedi, Tihar is a model for all India to follow. Bedi is famous for both her prison reform and her ‘larger than life’ personality. Critics call her an attention seeker who hides the facts. A Canadian woman prisoner speaks of two months of in Tihar – conditions there still shock the West. Yet, interviews with Bedi and other prisoners offer hope where hope has always been in short supply.
Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
Duration : 0:6:27
how do you write a thesis statement on my own literacy history?
i have a 700 word thesis statement on my literacy history, that is due monday. can someone help me put it together.
a 700 word thesis statement? that doesn’t sound right. thesis statements state the main point of your paper with specific details that you describe later in the paper.
Information Literacy Presentation
A short video Gannon University Librarian Emmett Lombard provided with the help of The Center for Learning and teaching Excellence.
Duration : 0:9:46
What are some fun, literacy-oriented games for elementary school children to play at a party?
I run a literacy program for kids, grades 2-6. Tomorrow’s our end-of-year party and I was looking for some suggestions for games for them to play. Scattegories is my number one bet so far…with the kids split off into older and younger groups.
Mad Libs!! You have fun while learning your parts of speech.
An introduction to 21st century How was 8th grade literacy class taught during your time?
Im doing a class project on how 8th grade literacy class was taught during different time periods. If you answer can your tell me the year that you were taught, the approximate age of the teacher, what was going on in the U.S. during this time period, and how was research then. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Im doing a class project on how 8th grade literacy class was taught during different time periods. If you answer can your tell me the year that you were taught, the approximate age of the teacher, what was going on in the U.S. during this time period, what city were you taught in, and how was research then. Your help is greatly appreciated.
I was in 8th grade in 2000-2001 and my english class was taught by a woman who was probably in her late 50s. We basically just learned about grammar and focused a lot on poetry.
Nothing that I remember was going on in the U.S. during this time, but you can google that yourself.
Are computer games and the internet to blame for the ever decreasing standard of literacy among children?
A recent poll shows that UK children dropped from 3rd in the world to 19th in terms of literacy? Why is this?
Blaming technology for decreasing literature is a cop-out. Last I checked, using the internet involves a lot of reading. I would venture a guess that the average child with regular internet access reads more content than a child twenty years ago each day. They just read fewer books printed on paper.
Computer games probably contribute to obesity, but not likely to illiteracy, since they take the place of outdoor play.
The fault lies with schools, parents, societal values and social messages.
educational standards have declined. This is no ones fault but the schools. (Not the teachers, but the schools as a whole.)
Parents, especially low income parents, have to work more, and spend less time reading to their young children. And the parents are often not terribly literate to start with. A recent study in the US found that less than 50% of Americans read for recreation. I imagine the figures in the UK are similar.
Society does not value intellectual pursuits. Society values money and power. While literacy and money and power are certainly connected, that is not always the message that comes across.
And there is the social messages that children get. When one knows that they will end up working in the factory just like their dad, there is far less incentive to pursue their studies.
Scientific Literacy in China
Video blog by ScienCentral’s news director, after attending a conference on public scientific literacy in Shanghai. Also: don’t miss the “Science Literacy Olympics” at sciencentral dot com! http://www.sciencentral.com/video/
Duration : 0:7:48