Literacy and Holistic Development

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Literacy and Holistic Development

• William G. Huitt Valdosta
  State University
• Zhang Ruiming Guangzhou
  University

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Brilliant Star Framework
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Brilliant Star Framework

• Core elements
• Spirituality
• Moral Character
• Personal Style

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Brilliant Star Framework

• Intrapersonal domains
• Physical/psychomotor
• Awareness/perceiving
• Cognition/thinking
• Affect/emotion
• Conation/volition

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Brilliant Star Framework

• Interpersonal domains
• Family
• Friends
• Career
• Finances
• Sociocultural

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Traditional Classroom Instruction

• Focuses mainly on cognitive domain
• Reading/language arts
• Mathematics
• Social studies
• Science

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Traditional Classroom Instruction

• Academic and intellectual competencies account
  for only about 1/3 of variance when attempting to
  explain adult success

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Brilliant Star Integrative Reading Project

• Use reading/language arts activities
• Develop social capital

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Lesson Summary Development

• Book selection
• http//chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/brilstar/
  integrative/reading/index.html
• Lesson summaries developed
• Connected to other academic areas
• Uniqueness is simultaneously addressing academic
  and holistic objectives

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Classroom Usage

• Materials easy to use
• Increased use of childrens literature

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Developing Social Capital

• Audio or video recording while reading book
• Used in classroom during reading time
• Middle school service learning activity

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Future Activities

• Develop school-wide project leadership team
• Select additional books and write more lesson
  summaries
• Record students reading their own books
• More systematic implementation

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Summary and Conclusions

• Restrictions on classroom activities
• Linking reading/language arts to other content
  areas well established
• Extending to more holistic objectives