Comprehensive Literacy
Comprehensive literacy focuses on choice, providing students the opportunity to choose what they want to work on. It divides the class period into smaller blocks of full class lesson, and a work period, in which student can choose to work on one of several "menu item" tasks. During this work period the teacher may take small groups or individuals to conference with, or work on a smaller guided activity. The smaller full class lessons, and work time chunks helps keep students on-task, and engaged, preventing burn-out. Follow this link to view an infographic on how comprehensive literacy can be incorporated into the classroom.
Artifacts
Storybird
Storybird is a free website which students, teachers, or individuals can create accounts, allowing them to read or create stories, and poems around the world. This site provides artwork to illustrate the stories/poems. This artwork can be used as inspiration or story starters, which can help get the imagination flowing of minds old and young. Students can use their knowledge of story structure to create different length stories. They may also use Storybird to practice creating different types of poems. Storybird can allow the students to share their work easily with friends, and family members. This is a fun way which parents can become engaged in their children's education.
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| Screenshot of illustrations which can be used in Storybird. |
Pixton
Pixton is a website in which educators and students can
sign-up to use. Pixton provides students with a chance to explore different
writing styles, as this site can be used to create different projects such as
storyboards or comics. Many students become excited about using technology in
the classroom, thus making Pixton an exciting tool for students to use. Pixton
easily ties into media literacy, and writing in the Language curriculum.
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| Screenshot of Pixton, illustrating some project options. |
Figurative Language
Anchor Chart
Anchor charts make an excellent reference point for
students, which can be used throughout the year. This anchor chart depicts the
different types of figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification,
hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia. This anchor chart is effective as it
explains what each type of figurative language is, and provides an example to
help students differentiate between them. (Artifact Retrieved from Pinterest, pinned by
user: Kelly Whitney Roy)
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| Figurative Language Anchor Chart Pinned by Pinterest user Kelly Whitney Roy |
The Writing Process
Tower Chart
This anchor chart has six steps to the writing process. It
begins with brainstorming/prewriting activities, then writing a first draft,
peer edit, revising, editing, and finally publishing a final draft. This anchor
chart allows for clothespins with the students’ names to be attached to the
sides of the anchor chart, in which the students can move their clothespin up
the chart as they move through the steps. This helps keep the students
accountable, while reminding them what the next steps are. This can also help
the teacher gather an understanding of where students are in their work, which
can also give them an idea of if a student is struggling. For instance, if a
student is in the brainstorming section for a long time, the teacher may then
want to conference with that student to help them move forward. As this anchor
chart does not give detail about what is involved with each step, I would
recommend using it after giving a lesson on each step. I would also suggest to
consider giving the students a handout/note to keep that contains more detail
for each step that they can refer to. (Artifact Retrieved from Pinterest, pinned by user
Precious Selé)
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| Writing Chart, Pinned by Pinterest user: Precious Selé |
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