Content+Literacy+ABT

Introduction Welcome to //Content Literacy "ABT//." I am the professor Dr. Michael J. Gill. In this course, you will access various instructional strategies in which your students should "Always be Talking, Always be Thinking and Always Tackling Text." This is an interactive course in which participants will not only access content during class sessions, but thier ideas into action in their respective classrooms. We will be utilizing this class page to access course materials and have online discussions.

Course Outline

Online Work for Week of April 26, 2014

1. Read your chapter assigned in class. Write a brief analysis on the chapter; explaining the strategies you used to make connections and question the text and then create three new leanings/conceptualizations on the chapter. 2. Apply two or three of strategies from the chapter with your students or how you would apply with your students Reflect on how students access the strategies.

Online Work for Week of 1. Read the NY Times article below titled "Failure." Apply the text coding and questioning strategy to the article while you read it. Take notes - these are not for submission.

Online Work for Week of 1. Read the article "The Avenging Amateur" below. Apply the text coding and questioning strategy to the article while you read it. Prepare a one page reflection detailing your notes and the strategies used. How will these strategies be applicable to your next teaching assignment?

Course Materials

Course Texts "Strategies that Work" by Harvey and Goudvis "Nonfiction Matters" by Harvey "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

Websites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eNXFMu7ecU&feature=youtu.be

http://prezi.com/wjxx8t5vxwoy/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

[|NY Times - AP]

[|NY Times - Failure]