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Basic Writing Goals and Objectives

Reading Multiple Literacies: An Exploration of Language, Identity, and Power

Unit 1 Mapping Literacies

Reading:

• Accessing pre-reading strategies:  reflecting on the topic; making connections to prior knowledge; assessing a purpose for reading (participatory)

• Making connections between readings and self in relation to others

• Reading for main ideas; reading for descriptive details and images

• Identifying rhetorical strategies and their social implications

• Glossing:  noting personal connections; identifying important examples

Writing:

• Generation of ideas:  listing and responding to focused prompts; creating a time-line

• Responding to reading—summary and reflection

• Free writing

• Narration; focusing the topic; development of idea; reflection and analysis of personal experience

• Drawing on responses from readers

• Revising substantively; using reading to revise

• Editing and proof-reading; development of proofreading log; reflecting on sentence level choices

Discussion:

• Participation in small group discussions

• Exchanging information in small and large groups on personal experience and personal knowledge

Unit 2 Bringing Literacies Home

Reading:

• Pre-reading strategies:  reflecting on purpose for reading—analytical; analyzing the structure of a text

• Glossing:  noting main ideas from each paragraph; identifying key terms; posing questions with the text

• Using texts to interpret and analyze personal experience

• Asking questions of the text

Writing:

• Planning and organizing from notes and free-writes

• Analysis and interpretation

• Integrating texts with writing:  summary, paraphrase, quotation

• Citation forms/works cited

• Using texts to interpret and analyze personal experience and/or observation

• Comparison/contrast

• Using self-review techniques to revise

• Varying syntax

• Expansion of proofreading log through teacher input

• Reflecting on sentence level choices and meaning

Discussion:

• Expressing views from the readings in large group discussion

• Expressing opinion in large group discussion

• Listening to understand new perspectives

• Negotiating meaning through discussion

 Unit 3  Exploring the Power of Literacy and Literacies of Power

Reading:

• Pre-reading Strategies: reading to synthesize and make connections to understand perspectives outside of personal experience and/or knowledge; previewing text with topic-related free-writes

• Glossing:  being “dialogic” with text; questioning the text; connecting text to other texts

• Creating a glossary of terms and concepts (especially for theoretical texts)

• Evaluating proximity of text and self

• Considering the ethos of the writer and their choices

Writing:

• Connecting texts to other texts; using texts to interpret other texts

• Synthesis of two or more texts

• Making audience appropriate linguistic choices / using assignment appropriate register

• Making connections between sentence level choice, meaning, dialect, and discourse

• Self-directed refinement of proofreading log

Discussion:

• Listening critically to arguments

• Recasting classmates’ arguments to assure comprehension

• Expressing opposing views

Unit 4  Unschooling Literacy

Reading: 

• re-reading texts from a new perspective 

• re-reading own texts to create a new perspective

Writing:

• Developing a hypothesis

• Integrating previously written texts into new text

• Synthesizing own ideas with other texts

• Continual refinement of proofreading log and style choices

 Discussion:

• Synthesizing texts and own ideas for discussion

• Presentation of work—development of short oral presentation

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