What is Literacy?

1. Opportunities to RespondOpportunities to Respond: The Literacy Rich EnvironmentNancy B. HertzogThe University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPresentation to the Illini Reading Council, February 6, 2001

2. What is Literacy? • Reading • Writing • Listening • Speaking

3. Best Practices • Writing • Ownership - choice • Authentic - purposeful • Focus on growth - self-evaluation • Focus on expression • Writing as a process • Reading • Choice of reading materials • Independent reading • Many genres of literature • Emphasis on comprehension • Writing before and after reading

4. Daily Sign-In Question Do you want to study the squirrels on the playground? Do the clouds seem high or low? When we put the clay ball in the water, will the water level go up, down, or stay the same?

5. Daily Questions

6. Interviewing an Expert

8. Self-Evaluation

9. Shared Experience

10. Drawing and Labeling

11. Planning

12. Journal Writing

13. Print Experiences and Environments(Duke, 2000) • Amount of Print • Books, magazines • Classroom walls and other surfaces • Amount of time in which print was involved in classroom activities • Type of Print Experienced • Reading and writing extended text, not just letter, word, phrase, or single sentence form • Nature of Print Experience: Student Agency With Print • Students becoming readers and writers, users of print

14. A Newspaper Article About WaterExperiments • We have been doing lots of experiments about water (melting snow, freezing, and crystalizing). Me, Joe, and Konlin have crystalized water, sugar, salt, and pepper. We have been crystalizing ‘water and sugar’ and ‘water and salt’ into crystals. • By Michael

15. Categorizing Ideas

16. Story Comparisons

17. Displays: Opportunities for Reflection

18. Explaining Our Work

19. Using the Internet

20. Preparing Our Presentation

21. Buddy Reading

22. Increasing Vocabulary Definitions from 3/4 year olds acorn: a round seed that squirrels like to eat bark: "the skin of the tree," it's hard and it's bumpy blossom: a flower that's opening up in the forest in the spring branch: a brown part of a tree that holds the leaves and the flowers. forest: a dark place with really tall trees, a lot of animals, and sometimes there's bats nest: a place for birds and eggs sap: it's a liquid, it's on pine cones trunk: wood that makes sugar for the tree to eat and sucks out water for the tree

23. Poetry The Snow The snow is like glittering crystals shining in the light. The trees are like cones filed with glitter, and the grass is like shining gold. The winter is filled with wonderful things. It is filled with light and crystals and glitter and the fence is beautiful. Sheri 3/4/98

24. The Winter The winter is like a blanket and the snow is like a bowl of crystals and the grass is like a bowl of gold and the trees are sparkling pieces of the sun and the ground looks like pretty glitter, pretty glitter. Erin 3/4/98

25. Water Song Written collectively by K-1 Class and performed for parents and friends on Share Day. (to the tune of Row, Row, Row your Boat, More or less) (Atoms!) Water has 2 hydrogen and one oxygen. Put them altogether and They make a molecule. If you don’t have water, You could not survive. Water is important. Let’s say that again. If you don’t have water, You could not survive. Water is important. We won’t say that again. Water can be hot. Water can be cold. Water can be ice or steam or you can watch it slow.

26. Opportunities to Respond Definitions Vocabulary StoriesSongs QuestionsPoetryInterviews

27. More Opportunities to Respond SurveysNews ArticlesWriting ExperimentsWriting Letters

28. “Reading the Wall!”

29. Reading for Enjoyment