Keys to Literacy Instruction for the NET Generation

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2013

Pages: 182

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Keys to Literacy Instruction for the NET Generation: Grades 4 to 12 opens links to assessment and engaging cognitive strategy instruction with cutting-edge Net Resources. Educational administrators, upper grades, and secondary teachers learn how to critically integrate and differentiate reading and writing instruction across the content areas through student choice and motivating opportunities on the Internet.

Keys to Literacy Instruction for the NET Generation: Grades 4 to 12 provides teachers with:

  • keys for critical literacy
  • contextual fluency
  • word building
  • vocabulary
  • comprehension instruction
  • essential frameworks for progress monitoring. 

 

The Literacy CLOUD Progress Monitoring Map provides educators with a tool for assessment and creative instruction that focuses on students’ interests and goals. Confidence-building Mastermind Hubs are also introduced for collaborative development of student organization and the review of content area literacy to enhance long-term learning throughout the year. 

This reader-friendly book provides analysis and synthesis of literacy integration for professional networking. It features engaging, research-based, practical methods for saving time in the classroom as teachers connect literacy strategies with the Common Core State Standards. The authors highlight critical literacy, literature, and motivating methods for integrating technology to enhance literacy development and promote successful lifelong learning for the NET generation.
 

Acknowledgements
Meet the Authors

1 Using Technology and Literacy Strategies for Effective Teaching
Chapter 1 emphasizes the art of integrating literacy and technology for research-based instruction in the content areas.

2 Keys for Literacy Development
Chapter 2 provides insights for understanding literacy acquisition for successful reading and writing in the upper grades.

3 Keys for Contextual Word-Building and Authentic Assessment
Chapter 3 highlights cognitive strategies for word-building and morphological knowledge in meaningful contexts across the content areas.

4 Keys for Multiple Literacies for Vocabulary Development
Chapter 4 focuses on ways to use technology and multiple literacies for content-specific and general vocabulary development through collaborative classroom activities.

5 Keys for Critical Literacy, Contextual Fluency, and Comprehension
Chapter 5 highlights innovative ways to integrate cognitive reading strategies for critical literacy, fluency, and comprehension across the content areas.

6 Keys for Connecting Comprehension, Self-Regulation, and Assessment
Chapter 6 features the Literacy CLOUD Progress Monitoring Map. This tool emphasizes assessment and instruction that focuses on students’ interests and goals.

7 The Writing Workshop: Giving Voice to the Silenced
Chapter 7 features key ideas to motivate struggling writers to become confident and imaginative writers.

8 Digital Literacy for 21st Century Learners
Chapter 8 provides guidelines for digital literacy and creative opportunities for interaction with texts.

9 Analysis and Synthesis of Literacy Integration for Professional Networking
Chapter 9 focuses on professional networking opportunities for analysis and synthesis of literacy integration for motivating the net generation to pursue lifelong learning.

References
Index

Debra Coffey
Dr. Debra J. Coffey is an associate professor of Literacy and Language Instruction in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education in the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State University. During regional, national, and international conferences, she shares innovations from teaching experiences across the spectrum from preschool to the university level. She has written widely about literacy strategies, and she co-authored the book Unlocking the Power of Language: Research-Based Strategies for Language Development. As an academic lead coach, mentor, and co-advisor for student organizations, she conducts outreach programs and literacy projects for partnership schools in Nigeria, Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador.
Elaine Roberts
Dr. Elaine Roberts is an associate professor of Reading Education at the University of West Georgia in the College of Education Department of Collaboration, Intervention and Support. She was a leader in the development of the Reading Endorsement for the state of Georgia and has written articles in peer reviewed journals as well as presented at numerous conferences, state-wide, regionally, nationally and internationally. Her main areas of interest include cultural responsiveness, word recognition and comprehension, and literacy progress monitoring across the content areas. She was a university reading clinic supervisor and has taught first and fourth grade and high school. She enjoys working as a literacy consultant.

Keys to Literacy Instruction for the NET Generation: Grades 4 to 12 opens links to assessment and engaging cognitive strategy instruction with cutting-edge Net Resources. Educational administrators, upper grades, and secondary teachers learn how to critically integrate and differentiate reading and writing instruction across the content areas through student choice and motivating opportunities on the Internet.

Keys to Literacy Instruction for the NET Generation: Grades 4 to 12 provides teachers with:

  • keys for critical literacy
  • contextual fluency
  • word building
  • vocabulary
  • comprehension instruction
  • essential frameworks for progress monitoring. 

 

The Literacy CLOUD Progress Monitoring Map provides educators with a tool for assessment and creative instruction that focuses on students’ interests and goals. Confidence-building Mastermind Hubs are also introduced for collaborative development of student organization and the review of content area literacy to enhance long-term learning throughout the year. 

This reader-friendly book provides analysis and synthesis of literacy integration for professional networking. It features engaging, research-based, practical methods for saving time in the classroom as teachers connect literacy strategies with the Common Core State Standards. The authors highlight critical literacy, literature, and motivating methods for integrating technology to enhance literacy development and promote successful lifelong learning for the NET generation.
 

Acknowledgements
Meet the Authors

1 Using Technology and Literacy Strategies for Effective Teaching
Chapter 1 emphasizes the art of integrating literacy and technology for research-based instruction in the content areas.

2 Keys for Literacy Development
Chapter 2 provides insights for understanding literacy acquisition for successful reading and writing in the upper grades.

3 Keys for Contextual Word-Building and Authentic Assessment
Chapter 3 highlights cognitive strategies for word-building and morphological knowledge in meaningful contexts across the content areas.

4 Keys for Multiple Literacies for Vocabulary Development
Chapter 4 focuses on ways to use technology and multiple literacies for content-specific and general vocabulary development through collaborative classroom activities.

5 Keys for Critical Literacy, Contextual Fluency, and Comprehension
Chapter 5 highlights innovative ways to integrate cognitive reading strategies for critical literacy, fluency, and comprehension across the content areas.

6 Keys for Connecting Comprehension, Self-Regulation, and Assessment
Chapter 6 features the Literacy CLOUD Progress Monitoring Map. This tool emphasizes assessment and instruction that focuses on students’ interests and goals.

7 The Writing Workshop: Giving Voice to the Silenced
Chapter 7 features key ideas to motivate struggling writers to become confident and imaginative writers.

8 Digital Literacy for 21st Century Learners
Chapter 8 provides guidelines for digital literacy and creative opportunities for interaction with texts.

9 Analysis and Synthesis of Literacy Integration for Professional Networking
Chapter 9 focuses on professional networking opportunities for analysis and synthesis of literacy integration for motivating the net generation to pursue lifelong learning.

References
Index

Debra Coffey
Dr. Debra J. Coffey is an associate professor of Literacy and Language Instruction in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education in the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State University. During regional, national, and international conferences, she shares innovations from teaching experiences across the spectrum from preschool to the university level. She has written widely about literacy strategies, and she co-authored the book Unlocking the Power of Language: Research-Based Strategies for Language Development. As an academic lead coach, mentor, and co-advisor for student organizations, she conducts outreach programs and literacy projects for partnership schools in Nigeria, Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador.
Elaine Roberts
Dr. Elaine Roberts is an associate professor of Reading Education at the University of West Georgia in the College of Education Department of Collaboration, Intervention and Support. She was a leader in the development of the Reading Endorsement for the state of Georgia and has written articles in peer reviewed journals as well as presented at numerous conferences, state-wide, regionally, nationally and internationally. Her main areas of interest include cultural responsiveness, word recognition and comprehension, and literacy progress monitoring across the content areas. She was a university reading clinic supervisor and has taught first and fourth grade and high school. She enjoys working as a literacy consultant.