Using the Learners

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Using the Learners Talentsin Balanced
LiteracyLanguage Arts K - 3

• Governors Urban Academy
• at Muhlenberg College
• June 23 - 28, 2002
• Dr. Margaret L. Benson

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The Pennsylvania Standards

• 1.2 Reading Critically in All Content Areas
• 1.3 Reading, Analyzing and Interpreting
  Literature
• 1.5 Quality of Writing
• 1.8 Research

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Traditional View ofIntelligence

• Verbal-Linguistic Math-Logical
• Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
• Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
• mental age/chron. Age
• times 100
• WISC

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Multiple IntelligencesHoward Gardner

• Brain research
• Theory in progress
• Frames of the Mind (1983)
• Probe beyond the traditional

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What Type of Learner Are You?

• As a child
• Favorites outside school
• Favorite subject in school
• Favorite teacher - because
• You were intelligent in _____
• School would have been better if __________
• You decided you wanted to be a teacher because
  _______

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Eight Ways of Being Smart

• Verbal-Linguistic
• Math-Logical
• Spatial
• Bodily-Kinesthetic

• Musical
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalist

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Spatial

• Strong in
• maps, puzzles
• Likes to
• design, create, looks at pictures
• Learns best through
• visualizing
• Famous examples
• Pablo Picasso
• Frank Lloyd Wright

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Bodily-Kinesthetic

• Strong in
• acting,
• Likes to
• move around, touch and feel
• Learns best through
• touching, processing through senses
• Famous examples
• Charlie Chaplin
• Martina Navratilova

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Musical

• Strong in
• singing, rhythms
• Likes to
• sing, hum, listen to music
• Learns best through
• rhythm, melody
• Famous examples
• Leonard Bernstein
• Ella Fitzgerald

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Intrapersonal

• Strong in
• understanding self, setting goals
• Likes to
• work alone, reflect
• Learns best through
• doing self-paced projects
• having own space
• Famous examples
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Sigmund Freud

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Using the Learners Talents

• Pennsylvania Standards
• Multiple Intelligences
• Balanced Literacy

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Balanced LiteracySix Aspects

• Ownership of Literacy
• Reading Comp. Writing Process
• (Readers Workshop) (Writers Workshop)
• Language and Vocabulary Knowledge
• Word Reading and Spelling Strategies
• Voluntary Reading
• (Au, Carroll, Scheu, p. 4)

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Balanced Literacy

• Six Aspects of Literacy
• Full process
• Authentic context
• Reading and writing
• Speaking and listening
• Community of learners

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Balanced Literacy

• Positive Attitudes towards Literacy
• Part of their daily routine
• Affective side as important as cognitive
• Accomplishment of real-world tasks
• The will as well as the skill
• Responsibility for their own learning
• Control over their lives in school
• Teachers responsibility to guide

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Balanced Literacy

• Reader Response Theory
• Louise Rosenblatt
• Transaction between reader and text
• Aesthetic
• reading for the sake of reading
• attention on what she/he is living while reading
• Efferent
• what should be retained

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Balanced Literacy

• Lev Vygotsky
• Guided and paced by a more capable person (Zone
  of Proximal Development - ZPD)
• Enable the child to actively participate
• Support from someone who knows the child

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Balanced Literacy

• Practical Implications
• Use heterogeneous grouping
• Give students choices of the texts they will read
  and discuss
• Base discussions on students responses to the
  text, not preset teacher questions
• Take the role of a facilitator rather than
  question-asker

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Balanced Literacy

• Writing
• Construct meaning
• Communicate a message
• Choose self-selected topics
• See themselves as authors
• Dynamic, nonlinear process

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Balanced Literacy

• Writing
• Shared Writing
• Interactive Writing
• Guided Writing
• Independent Writing

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Balanced Literacy

• Writing Process
• Planning
• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

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Balanced Literacy

• Reading
• Read-Aloud
• Guided Reading
• Shared Reading
• Independent Reading

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Balanced Literacy

• Continuum of Reading Strategies
• Teacher Read Alouds
• Sustained Silent Reading
• Literature Discussion Groups
• Guided Discussion
• Guided Reading
• Shared Reading
• K 1 2 3 4 5 6
• (Au, Carrol, Scheu, p. 79)

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Balanced Literacy

• Writing
• Shared Writing
• Interactive Writing
• Guided Writing
• Independent Writing

• Reading
• Read-Aloud
• Guided Reading
• Shared Reading
• Independent Reading