Real life literacy : classroom tools that promote real-world reading and writing
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
In Real Life Literacy, Paterson includes instructional ideas for having students work with such tasks — what Paterson describes as genuine, purposeful, functional literacy tasks. As an example, writing about medicine container labels, Paterson states that providing children with practice in deciphering these labels is an important, practical activity “well worth classroom time.”
The book includes 25 real life literacy lessons contained within six themes:
1. Messages (including such things as thank you notes, classified advertisements and instructions);
2. Labels (medicine, food and clothing labels);
3. Money (including things such as ordering products, methods of payment and working with bankbooks);
4. Non-fiction (working with resources like timetables and schedules, phone books, glossaries and entertainment guides);
5. Planning Tools (personal planners, calendars, address books and timetables);
6. Forms (including resumes, cover letters and job applications).
Excerpt from review in CM by Gregory Bryan- click here for full review
