21st Century Literacy If We Are Scripted, Are We Literate? /

• Main Authors: Schmidt, Renita. (Author), Thomas, P. L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Explorations of Educational Purpose ; 5
• Subjects: Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Education & Society.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This book offers a call to all who are involved with literacy education. It explores the prescriptions that hinder authentic and effective approaches to literacy instruction. The scripts identified here include the Bureaucratic Script, the Corporate Script, the Student Script, the Parent and Public...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I. The Bureaucratic Script. 1: Standards, Standards Everywhere and Not a Spot to Think. 2: Rubrics, Scoring Guides, and Testing, Testing, Testing
• Part II. The Corporate Script. 3: Marketing Child Readers: Ranking and Sorting. 4: English as a Scripted Language
• Part III. The Student Script. 5: When Are We Going to Do English? 6: How School Works: Raise Your Hands When You Want to Learn
• Part IV. The Parent and Public Script. 7: Why Dont You Mark the Errors on my Childs Papers?  Explaining Yourself Theoretically and Professionally. 8: Why Arent You Teaching C.S. Lewis? Challenges and Expectations from Outside School
• Part V. The Administrative Script. 9: But Are They Ready To Do Best Practices? 10: Building and Department PoliticsTalking English
• Part VI. Beyond Scripts to Literacy. 11: Literacy as ActionEmpowering Students. 12: Assessing Our Way into Instruction: What Teachers Know and How They Know It. Conclusion: Implications for Literacy Classrooms in the 21st Century
• References.