Indy Teach

Indy Teaching Planning-
Main Ideas-
1. Focus on setting up a “literacy friendly” classroom environment.
2. Bring the students into this environment with the idea that they are active contributors to their learning experience.
3. Use new and old ideas to maintain literacy among a large spectrum of different learning abilities.

Possible Essential Questions-
1. Why focus on literacy at the middle school and high school level?
2. What is the importance of a classroom focused around literacy building and reading
comprehension?
3. Why is it important for students’ to take responsibility for their own literacy?

Activities-
Identify what indicates a “good book”-
1. Give students a variety of short stories written for different reading levels.
2. Ask students which text they enjoyed more and why?
3. Compare the “level” of the text, to the content in the text? (I.e. was the text more enjoyable because it was easy or because the content in the text was interesting?)

Pick a literacy issue-
1. Students are broken up into groups of 4 or 5 students.
2. In these groups students are given an example of a literacy issue that may occur in their particular classroom.
3. Students must assess the issue and give examples of how they would address the literacy problem.