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Literacy and Holistic Development

Explore the Brilliant Star Framework, which integrates literacy instruction with holistic development, encompassing spirituality, moral character, personal style, and various domains of intrapersonal and interpersonal skills.

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Literacy and Holistic Development

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  1. Literacy and Holistic Development William G. Huitt Valdosta State University Zhang Ruiming Guangzhou University

  2. Brilliant Star Framework

  3. Brilliant Star Framework • Core elements • Spirituality • Moral Character • Personal Style

  4. Brilliant Star Framework • Intrapersonal domains • Physical/psychomotor • Awareness/perceiving • Cognition/thinking • Affect/emotion • Conation/volition

  5. Brilliant Star Framework • Interpersonal domains • Family • Friends • Career • Finances • Sociocultural

  6. Traditional Classroom Instruction • Focuses mainly on cognitive domain • Reading/language arts • Mathematics • Social studies • Science

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

  8. Brilliant Star Integrative Reading Project • Use reading/language arts activities • Develop social capital

  9. 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

  10. Classroom Usage • Materials easy to use • Increased use of children’s literature

  11. Developing Social Capital • Audio or video recording while reading book • Used in classroom during reading time • Middle school service learning activity

  12. 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

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

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