Exploring Literacy Websites:
Directions:
Visit the “Guys Read” web site (https://www.guyread.com). How does this web site help to encourage guys to explore connections to feelings through reading?
Visit the National Right to Read Foundation (https://www.nrrf.org), which provides information on phonics instruction. It also raises a number of concerns about issues such as emergent literacy and invented spelling. Read the critiques and offer your opinion based on these critiques.
Visit the International Reading Association’s website (https://www.reading.org) and locate the position statement entitled “New Literacies and 21st Century Technologies.” Summarize the context of the IRA’s position on using technologies.
Visit Little Explorer (https://www.LittleExplorers.com) and explore why this might be a valuable resource in a multilingual classroom.
Use the scoring guide below and the course grading rubric as your guide.
Write 3-4 detailed pages.