tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52584305436537840002024-03-13T15:49:05.048-06:00Literacy Action CenterWe transform English-speaking, low-literate adults, who live in Salt Lake or Davis Counties in Utah, into skilled, passionate, habitual, critical readers, writers, and mathematicians. We also educate community volunteers to work one-on-one or in group settings with these adult learners. For more information, see www.LiteracyActionCenter.org. To get help or donate time, resources, or financial support, please call 801/265-9081.Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-30010281309269691722022-04-28T09:00:00.002-06:002022-04-28T09:00:00.177-06:00Memories: Do you remember when we...<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUv4yU6m4icuvrDpvz3Dp3gvDwN01glZs9aGSuuv0Z_Rk8bMOHeCqDub0ZCdYGwx8E40gDLTyqD6rGMOFDxALta2pU1303MOy0L82RewhDYtrr1WjHVfkuPxwqlXkIbDcDTnNu2jgQkYKoa7HM6rSUwzMUVTSsSK_UHyrht3yljTH21ehEaKV-MCmj/s2315/Sidewalk%20Chalk%20Art.Aug18.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2122" data-original-width="2315" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUv4yU6m4icuvrDpvz3Dp3gvDwN01glZs9aGSuuv0Z_Rk8bMOHeCqDub0ZCdYGwx8E40gDLTyqD6rGMOFDxALta2pU1303MOy0L82RewhDYtrr1WjHVfkuPxwqlXkIbDcDTnNu2jgQkYKoa7HM6rSUwzMUVTSsSK_UHyrht3yljTH21ehEaKV-MCmj/s320/Sidewalk%20Chalk%20Art.Aug18.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sidewalk Chalk Art </span><br />(part of a unit on Art Appreciation, where art, literacy, <br />& critical thinking engaged us both mentally and physically)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-516a86f5-7fff-93d9-c6f9-0e5259232a6a"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been with LAC for a little over four years now, and I’ve had a lot of fun. </span></span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve got tons of memories of great and not-so-great times. Like when we went to the park so we could draw on the sidewalk for class. Or, when I had to wait for what felt like an extra hour for the bus because I missed the previous one.</span></span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Danny</span></span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Read more about this unit in our blog post "<a href="https://literacyactioncenter.blogspot.com/2018/05/art-appreciation-integrating-literacy.html" target="_blank">Art Appreciation - integrating literacy & critical thinking</a>."</span></span></span></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-30378265275725802002022-04-26T10:00:00.002-06:002022-04-26T10:00:00.150-06:00Things I've Learned<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNt-20NExRyR_268_BbAfGjH5cAt9cVSMlGpT7VRzPcLS6UYsSSatq43axTvKLQeVH4Bg2fVJMlTWw33cTzzlOhMX0L92Ao72Iccv-3TDsnjOPNifJaL3nd-z7rAcx5JUfxOnrMpv62PAF95MYa5LYTIXsx1BB42o_JvyXXwWmPPIHzWA8KYcm0bR_/s805/Elk%20thinking.apr22.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Elk sitting in snowfield thinking "Things I've Learned."" border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="805" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNt-20NExRyR_268_BbAfGjH5cAt9cVSMlGpT7VRzPcLS6UYsSSatq43axTvKLQeVH4Bg2fVJMlTWw33cTzzlOhMX0L92Ao72Iccv-3TDsnjOPNifJaL3nd-z7rAcx5JUfxOnrMpv62PAF95MYa5LYTIXsx1BB42o_JvyXXwWmPPIHzWA8KYcm0bR_/w320-h293/Elk%20thinking.apr22.png" title="Things I've Learned" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">Two things I've learned from being at LAC:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">reading in silence and </span></li><li><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">talking about what I've read.</span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">Wyldon</span></span></div><p></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-36139884048466341762022-04-21T10:00:00.010-06:002022-04-21T17:52:40.096-06:00Different Ways to Learn<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKXaz9aQ-6hFs1mlDXsYmOeqTrQyUc1hUsaPFjhgXCQ2Z776D7iG8qEqUj68jLUdxVUWIcEWkZOA05wqCoit6nQQmIRU1JoQ__9zr0fQqbzgvni6ZuZRPAVy_6OqGLXv2SQq_cSA_e5IcwdZhQFUV_UsOhXtrch8it7l3d-Fll_BWtK7JVKL5FkC2l/s1115/xword%20puzzle.ways%20to%20learn.apr22.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img alt="17 Ways to Learn presented in crossword puzzle format" border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1115" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKXaz9aQ-6hFs1mlDXsYmOeqTrQyUc1hUsaPFjhgXCQ2Z776D7iG8qEqUj68jLUdxVUWIcEWkZOA05wqCoit6nQQmIRU1JoQ__9zr0fQqbzgvni6ZuZRPAVy_6OqGLXv2SQq_cSA_e5IcwdZhQFUV_UsOhXtrch8it7l3d-Fll_BWtK7JVKL5FkC2l/w320-h231/xword%20puzzle.ways%20to%20learn.apr22.png" title="Some Ways to Learn" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Puzzle created with https://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">One thing I learned about is different ways to learn while I'm attending LAC. I <b>learned how Google can help me learn</b>. I <b>learned how to spell and find meanings</b> or definitions of words.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The one thing I won't miss about Zoom is people talking over other people. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Brian</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">"Some Ways to Learn" included in the puzzle above are: audio, illustrate, journal, experience, listen, discuss, video, interview, watch, read, share, people, teach, observe, online, write, & draw.</span></span></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-11377459974697173712022-04-19T09:00:00.002-06:002022-04-19T09:00:00.181-06:00Gardening Metaphor: Seeing/Being The Garden<p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_Y5y13d-MZLY2dxxlmZSCEzixcbi45_AGRbNG_u4gER-kD9fojfxEw4t1DCaj1ybsVBeSId6ncf7zD5Yfwq8X-Z0ZKkdBwJOH0hFo0q2HqQLf1GcWaaIrA6t4zWeJiesKk5dfCwhAwaGt4bK9kEWzdDneyYQs38EiFvAKrXT1epIQcgJG-p29dUq/s1274/LFDJ%20Bob%20daffodil%2011Apr22.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Photo of daffodil in garden" border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="1274" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_Y5y13d-MZLY2dxxlmZSCEzixcbi45_AGRbNG_u4gER-kD9fojfxEw4t1DCaj1ybsVBeSId6ncf7zD5Yfwq8X-Z0ZKkdBwJOH0hFo0q2HqQLf1GcWaaIrA6t4zWeJiesKk5dfCwhAwaGt4bK9kEWzdDneyYQs38EiFvAKrXT1epIQcgJG-p29dUq/w320-h320/LFDJ%20Bob%20daffodil%2011Apr22.png" title="Daffodil from Robert A Young's Facebook page from his La fleur du jour collection - 17 April 2022" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Daffodil growing in a garden </span><br /></b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(posted as La Fleur Du Jour for 11 April 2022 on Robert A Young's Facebook page)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My seminal memory is the day, sometime after a few months at LAC in November 2014, when I was able to see that, as a <b>tutor</b>, I <b>needed to learn as well as teach</b>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Since that <b>revelation</b>, I began to be a </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">part of the garden as well as being one of the gardeners. I recognized </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that in order for each of us to reach our optimal growth, tutors must be </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">both flower and gardener. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Tending to each by fully understanding the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">needs of each individual, in the manner most appropriate, and by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">increasing my knowledge of each flower and and the health of the entire </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">garden. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">At that moment, I knew that <b>each of us is both</b> the garden and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the gardener.</span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Kathy</span></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-28266227900519113492022-04-14T09:00:00.003-06:002022-04-14T09:00:00.167-06:00Things Clicked<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Y0x2Ls9IvqhqJyVz5tKlH2iszPgam6j3WOk4m8EzKzcNsy5H-IsK_f9KywV9xftTgM3ZxhGnsSJg3DOEPh84i5lJUP612G3p3wfVlhw4duN25on0l8OaItL_cNTf9cEChaLWZincS0mpCHwhSg0i7R3toTPyXlhHushcDqoHsbHuK2qLQJbuw7ez" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="2 jam-packed shelves of books" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="960" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Y0x2Ls9IvqhqJyVz5tKlH2iszPgam6j3WOk4m8EzKzcNsy5H-IsK_f9KywV9xftTgM3ZxhGnsSJg3DOEPh84i5lJUP612G3p3wfVlhw4duN25on0l8OaItL_cNTf9cEChaLWZincS0mpCHwhSg0i7R3toTPyXlhHushcDqoHsbHuK2qLQJbuw7ez=w320-h239" title="400 digital books takes a whole lot less room than these books." width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Compare: 400 digital books to these books pilled on these shelves.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Recently, I have been working with a doctor regarding ADHD. On a Sunday a few weeks ago, I had a <b>realization</b> that things were working. </span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I remembered the skills found in the <b>Reader's Table</b>. These skills apply to more than just books. I have over 400 digital books I want to read. The Reader's Table helped me relearn how to analyze books and other media.</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bryan </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: Readers' Table <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;"> wa</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;">s a 3-day
opportunity we offered in August 2021 to improve reading skills. Our focus was on three specific,
highly-rated reading strategies: Make-a-Note, Summarizing, and Questioning. Each session began with a Reader's Sprint. Next, a strategy was introduced and practiced in a group, with a partner, and then individually. Each session finished with a celebration.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-83924369069011213652022-04-13T09:00:00.007-06:002022-04-13T09:00:00.178-06:00Many Memories: Here's One<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1tq_F8AVZ944pWrn_dULnmZa_JZkH_3aL4Z0SxNxGQwmVDKAJ6UsSqYPJi5wMZhldVpu2_pfO64h9KSW1AxkQHAbZRt-9TB7JjNWlDIZIKUTOfKmYjhhzwvKK61pczJipbwj5QNijmqLJ3vV--TBNJg-Wi_jIhIp1H61v0N_c7idMMRAyf0lOQe2/s1307/happiness%20blocks.apr22.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="Happiness written on building blocks" border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="1307" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1tq_F8AVZ944pWrn_dULnmZa_JZkH_3aL4Z0SxNxGQwmVDKAJ6UsSqYPJi5wMZhldVpu2_pfO64h9KSW1AxkQHAbZRt-9TB7JjNWlDIZIKUTOfKmYjhhzwvKK61pczJipbwj5QNijmqLJ3vV--TBNJg-Wi_jIhIp1H61v0N_c7idMMRAyf0lOQe2/w400-h65/happiness%20blocks.apr22.png" title="Happiness for me was..." width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a lot of memories from LAC, but I was only allowed to mention one. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was testing one time at LAC, and <b>I went up</b> in my reading test from 6th grade to 9th grade. <b>I was so happy</b> that I went outside and called some friends that I moved up in my reading test. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My emotions were all over the place, but that was the best memory.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>To this day, I have a lot of confidence in myself. </b>And I know that if I study, I can keep moving forward up the reading ladder.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ellen</span><br /></span></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-79716534656022614132021-12-15T09:00:00.003-07:002021-12-15T13:56:22.089-07:00Video Stars in the Making<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqDmvwYP48HHFnwK30fPOjT5BmfwVRql93gGvuJ3xyi9NcIyzJnWgXMxulHAir4scY8BWSS-aeU5XcRSbgNrMrgU8Yo3SYCmjbW5KnPlwyFNLQi8qVeyjvBKYZaLWDM65NUi1omV7ym_BndjvhnhPwjPLnkfGyPokDkvlI91lCZ1rO9ZPEd4UgVwUP=s1014" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1014" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqDmvwYP48HHFnwK30fPOjT5BmfwVRql93gGvuJ3xyi9NcIyzJnWgXMxulHAir4scY8BWSS-aeU5XcRSbgNrMrgU8Yo3SYCmjbW5KnPlwyFNLQi8qVeyjvBKYZaLWDM65NUi1omV7ym_BndjvhnhPwjPLnkfGyPokDkvlI91lCZ1rO9ZPEd4UgVwUP=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just a few of our stars.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ready to be a YouTube star? We didn't think we were quite ready, but hey why not!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Decisions</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The mechanics of everyday things is what got us started. We wanted to know how some things worked and share it with you. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"How do we share it?" we asked. Until this moment, we didn't think about Tic-Toc, Instagram, or Facebook. No, we decided learning larger skills that would translate into other platforms would be better. That's why we decided on creating videos, or more specifically learning how to use YouTube.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Coursework</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our Tuesday morning group explored topics, such as what makes popcorn pop, how a microwave works, what bluetooth is all about, and how to create a video. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">After examining these presentations, we identified the parts necessary to include in our videos. We then worked on developing our understanding of producing quality videos, including creating storyboards, writing scripts, and exploring camera setups.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Final Products</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Want to know how we did? Watch these five videos. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Danny explains the intricacies of tongs. See <i><a href="https://youtu.be/3M1EZ1en3Mg" target="_blank">How tongs works</a></i> (3:25). </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3M1EZ1en3Mg" width="320" youtube-src-id="3M1EZ1en3Mg"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Kathy explains how to use a nut grinder. See <a href="https://youtu.be/ZPUQjpqdREI" target="_blank">A Little Nutty Today</a> (1:49).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZPUQjpqdREI" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZPUQjpqdREI"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ray explains how a ballpoint pen works. See <a href="https://youtu.be/819uZrRQfXg" target="_blank">How a ballpoint pen works</a> (1:41).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/819uZrRQfXg" width="320" youtube-src-id="819uZrRQfXg"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ellen explains how an egg slicer works. See <a href="https://youtu.be/q4qre7MHILk" target="_blank">How an egg slicer works</a> (0:40).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q4qre7MHILk" width="320" youtube-src-id="q4qre7MHILk"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">We may not be video stars in anyone's eyes yet. We know we each have a long way to go. However, we all have to start somewhere. And, for 3 of the 4 videographers above, these films are their first attempts at reaching stardom.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Please "Like" each of them. And, add comments about them to this blog post. Thank you.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy. </span></p><p><br /></p><br /><br />Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-53553078776231500062021-11-09T07:02:00.001-07:002021-11-09T12:05:32.262-07:00Tuesday Mystery Motivation Puzzle<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tGB5gM9rr0E/YYmiZT2R5DI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/2HWhQhV6N_cgKX0piLONCmYLbm5y12QMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s522/mystery%2Bpuzzle%2Bfor%2Btues%2B9Nov21%2B%25282%2529.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="detailed image of mystery item #1" border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="522" height="232" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tGB5gM9rr0E/YYmiZT2R5DI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/2HWhQhV6N_cgKX0piLONCmYLbm5y12QMwCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h232/mystery%2Bpuzzle%2Bfor%2Btues%2B9Nov21%2B%25282%2529.png" title="Mystery Item #1" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Image from: https://grpopcorn.com/blogs/news/how-is-popcorn-made-a-scientific-look-from-kernel-to-popped-corn</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span id="docs-internal-guid-41594587-7fff-5468-2ce4-ec43ad1f0146"><div><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This image represents our first "thing" to study? </span></b></div><div><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What do you think this is?</span></b></div></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="text-align: center;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="text-align: center;"><br /></b></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our new set up starts this week. What does this mean?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Schedule</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On Tuesday mornings, our new content will be the following:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> 8:30 AM - <u>How Things Work</u> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">10:05 AM - <u>Story Problems Using Realia</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">11:15 AM - <u>Reader's Sprint & Share</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Planning</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">How did we come up with this content and schedule?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Brainstorming. Discussion. Decision-making. The coming together of our instructional units is a group effort. I know you hear horrible things about committees and meetings. However, in our case, group planning is extremely productive. Group planning allows all of us to engage in the process and be partners, even if the initial idea belonged to someone else. We also discuss which College & Career Readiness (CCR) Standards we'll focus on in each instructional unit. And, more importantly, what our final product will be.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As you can see from the time schedule above, we have set up three instructional units for Tuesday mornings for November & December 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Why in this order? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The question posed was "What will get you up excited to come to class in the morning?" This group agreed whole-heartedly that "How Things Work" would do it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Execution</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Execution is on me. I have to take the content and figure out how to best deliver it for maximum benefit. We talk about the CCR Standards during our planning, but I'm responsible for ensuring that these skills and abilities are effectively integrated into instruction.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <u>How Things Work.</u> This unit is about understanding the mechanics or workings of every day items or things in our lives. We'll look at the operations or science behind six every day "things." Our focus will be on growing vocabulary, taking notes, explaining processes, developing presentation skills, and giving supporting evidence. Each lesson will be delivered via a set of Google slides. These lessons will include both video and written information. Each lesson will end with a short quiz. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Instructional Focus.</i> What "things" will we focus on, you ask? That's still up for debate. I chose the first item. See the photo at the top. We brainstormed several ideas, then I added to them. In the end, I created a survey for the group to score in class this week. The items with the highest numbers will the ones we include.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>End Product.</i> Learners will identify how the lessons are being presented. One lesson will be specific about how to make a video. During the course of the two months, learners will each identify one item to explore on their own. We'll end the unit with each learner sharing a self-made video explaining how his/her item works. </span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <u>Story Problems Using Realia.</u> Realia - objects & materials from everyday life used as teaching aids - was our first vocabulary word in this unit. They asked for "real" story problems linked to "real" situations in their adult lives. Again, we brainstormed possible realia we could use. I put together a survey for them to score at our next lesson. Meanwhile, our first lesson will focus on reading a map and figuring out distances. This realia will be an extension of our previous unit on map reading skills and trip planning. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Instructional Focus.</i> We agreed to focus on identify language that helps you decide which math operations to use, how to turn story problems into equations, how to solve the equations, and how to know if your answer is credible.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>End Product.</i> This unit will have a daily win - learn about real math-related items from our daily lives, but no final product for display at the end of this unit. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <u>Reader's Sprint & Share.</u> This unit is instructional in a different way. The sprint part is about reading silently for a given period of time in a book of one's choice. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Instructional Focus. </i>The share part of this sprint focuses on practicing summarizing. Learners write in their notebooks about what they learned during silently reading, then type the summaries into chat to share with us all. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We read aloud our summaries and briefly discuss them. Feedback depends entirely on the content of the summaries. Feedback may be specific about the structure of the summary. Feedback may be a conversation about the details of the summary. Or, feedback may even be questions or further requests for examples supporting the summary's content. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The point here is to use writing to summarize. Then, use oral language to further explore and communicate ideas. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>End Product.</i> This unit will have a daily win - develop summarization skills, but no final product for display at the end of this unit. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Next?</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What would you do </b>to pull together instruction with an impact on life? Leave comments below.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">skrow ti woh - nrocpop si meti yretsym eht</span></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-64289335547835043792021-09-27T10:00:00.007-06:002021-10-02T17:24:51.470-06:00Journaling: 4 Journal Categories<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GSatjTQ3SbU/YUlTTzaGSYI/AAAAAAAAAYE/noi0UguWNnYnC1k51fiUBTzQCRjCXuLFgCLcBGAsYHQ/s451/Jrnl.ex%2B4%2Btypes.sep21.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="451" height="239" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GSatjTQ3SbU/YUlTTzaGSYI/AAAAAAAAAYE/noi0UguWNnYnC1k51fiUBTzQCRjCXuLFgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Jrnl.ex%2B4%2Btypes.sep21.png" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">Examples of 4 different journaling types:<br />processing, tracking, planning, and sharing. </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: #444444;"> As you may recall, our Tuesday morning group started September with a </span><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://adultliteracyissuesinstructionimpact.blogspot.com/2021/09/journaling-what-do-we-know.html" target="_blank">two-month unit on journaling</a>. </span><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Prep work (for Lesson 2)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;">My homework between Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 became clear during Lesson 1. Learners needed their horizons widened. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;">A brief Google search quickly identified several bloggers willing to introduce me to different types of journals. Notice how many journaling types I discovered just from these four blog entries: </span><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href=" https://www.intelligentchange.com/blogs/read/20-types-of-journals-to-keep" target="_blank">10 Different Types of Journaling...</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.intelligentchange.com/blogs/read/20-types-of-journals-to-keep" target="_blank">20 Types of Journals to Keep</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://journey.cloud/journal-types/" target="_blank">7 Types of Journals with Examples</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/entertainment/12th/2017/06/13/6-types-journals-you-should-keep/393326001/" target="_blank">6 Types of Journals You Should Keep</a> </span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">Are there really this many types of journals? If so, how was I ever going to introduce them to learners without boring them to death?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>My Discoveries</b></span></span></p><span style="color: #444444;"><p><span style="font-size: large;">For the next step in my exploration, I recorded the name of every type of journal presented in these blogs plus several more blogs. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Discovery 1.</i> With time, I realized that many of the blogs were just repeating each other. The list narrowed itself to 25 types. How was I going to engage everyone in all 25 types? In only 20 minutes? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Discovery 2. P</i>erhaps more importantly, I discovered that these 25 "journal types" organized themselves into four distinct categories. Thank goodness. Four is much more manageable than 25.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>4 Categories</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I've since named the categories as processing, tracking, planning, and experiencing. Keep reading and find out what I put in each category. See if you agree. Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments below. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><u></u></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><u><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O6e3XuHcER4/YVCkLKj2vpI/AAAAAAAAAYg/0hWb2l2L1SAWsPvee2E4DRlZW5Tj0t2lACLcBGAsYHQ/s2554/Jrnl.processing.sep21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Stream-of-consciousness journal entry" border="0" data-original-height="1231" data-original-width="2554" height="96" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O6e3XuHcER4/YVCkLKj2vpI/AAAAAAAAAYg/0hWb2l2L1SAWsPvee2E4DRlZW5Tj0t2lACLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h96/Jrnl.processing.sep21.jpg" title="Stream-of-consciousness journal entry" width="200" /></a></u></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><u><br /><b>Processing</b></u><b> </b></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 25.68px;">is about committing thoughts to paper, followed by thought-provoking explorations. These thoughts toy with and explore ideas. Here are some of the specific names given to this type of journal writing.</span></span><p></p></blockquote><p></p><ul><ul><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Brain dump </span></span>journal </li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Stream-of-consciousness</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></span>journal</li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Morning Pages </span></span>journal</li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Prompted writing</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></span>journal</li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Gratitude journal </span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Prayer/bible journal </span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Idea journal </span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Therapy journal </span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">1-line-a-day</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></span>journal</li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">5-minute journal</span></span></li></ul></ul><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jmI5u7IUnCY/YVCkSN-kgEI/AAAAAAAAAYk/4DYoFUpXzyorbhgpMtv36-FmtdZBB0RywCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Jrnl.tracker.sep21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rolling checklist of re-occurring tasks" border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="2048" height="139" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jmI5u7IUnCY/YVCkSN-kgEI/AAAAAAAAAYk/4DYoFUpXzyorbhgpMtv36-FmtdZBB0RywCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h139/Jrnl.tracker.sep21.jpg" title="Rolling checklist of re-occurring tasks" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><u></u></span></span><p></p></blockquote></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 25.68px;"><b><u>Tracking</u> </b></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large; line-height: 25.68px;">is about making lists of repetitive actions that are key to forward movement on our goals, then checking the actions off each time we perform them. Here are some of the specific names given to this type of journal writing.</span></p></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p></blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"></p><ul><ul><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Goal action steps tracker</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bucket list tracker</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Diet tracker</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Exercise or fitness tracker</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mood or energy level tracker</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Water tracker</span></span></span></li></ul></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VKU_v1_kbeU/YVCkVmbXOaI/AAAAAAAAAYo/tay2d51n5ec5U4uTeQGnQZkJ5XKkWk8TgCLcBGAsYHQ/s3042/Jrnl.planner.sep21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Daily To Do List" border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="3042" height="68" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VKU_v1_kbeU/YVCkVmbXOaI/AAAAAAAAAYo/tay2d51n5ec5U4uTeQGnQZkJ5XKkWk8TgCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h68/Jrnl.planner.sep21.jpg" title="Daily To Do List" width="200" /></a></div><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><b><u>Planning</u> </b></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 25.68px;">is about productivity. Productivity planners are about scheduling actions and time, </span><span style="color: #444444;">organizing lists of tasks by due dates.</span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">Thus, this type of journal always pairs itself with a calendar. Here are some of the specific names given to this type of journal writing.</span></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"></p><ul><ul><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Bullet journal </span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444; text-indent: -0.25in;">Planner </span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Daily schedule </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">T</span></span>o Do lists</li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Project planner</span></span></li></ul></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RS50qu3rU5o/YVCkX5pqYyI/AAAAAAAAAYs/_C39mdI1WXYZQ_BVzjOWb18Ezv1tvR-JgCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Jrnl.sharing%2BLunch%2BMenu%2BOptions.sep21.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Experience journal entry" border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="113" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RS50qu3rU5o/YVCkX5pqYyI/AAAAAAAAAYs/_C39mdI1WXYZQ_BVzjOWb18Ezv1tvR-JgCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h113/Jrnl.sharing%2BLunch%2BMenu%2BOptions.sep21.png" title="Experience journal entry" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><u></u></span></span><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><b><u>Experiencing</u> </b></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 25.68px;">is about combining pictures, images, or even video with explanatory texts. That's just a sentence or two or a few key words to highlight the context and importance of this "experience." These journal entries may integrate sketches with handwritten text in a notebook, photos with typed text in a word processing file, or even postings on social media (e.g., Facebook, blog, Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok). These journal entries tell a specific story. Here are some of the specific names given to this type of journal writing. </span></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"></p><ul><ul><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Dream journal</span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Creative design doodling journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Art journal</span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Memory journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Scrapbook </span></span> journal</li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Meal planner</span></span> journal</li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Food journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Flower-of-the-Day journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Learning journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Travel journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Gardening journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Nature journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Junk journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Pregnancy journal </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Poetry journal</span></span></li></ul></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b>Lesson 2</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span>I shared images and explanations for each of </span></span><span style="text-indent: -24px;">the four journal types described above. My purpose? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"></p><ul><li><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="text-indent: -24px;">First, increase learners' knowledge of what journal writing encompasses. </span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="text-indent: -24px;">Second, engage learners in identifying which three of the four journal types they'd want to try for themselves. </span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="text-indent: -24px;">And lastly, help learners work out the details of this unit's final outcome product.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #444444; text-indent: -24px;">Their decisions? The three journal types we'll be exploring over the next six weeks will be experiencing, tracking, and processing. We'll also create a rating sheet for identifying the pros and cons of each type and proclaiming our individual choices.</span><span style="color: #444444; text-indent: -24px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="text-indent: -24px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;"><span><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;">Want to see how this works out? Follow us.</span></b></span></span></p></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Guest blogger - D. Young. </span>This article first published in Adult Literacy: Issues, Instruction, & Impact.</span></span></div>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-18795037034121936352021-09-22T08:00:00.017-06:002021-10-02T17:14:25.343-06:00Journaling: What do we know?<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HQ6e-awJXqY/YUlKARr5HZI/AAAAAAAAA18/J7XEG-Z0rUAI0jFm8vWAxpJR1UvxbDCRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2009/Jrnl.blog%2Bgeneral%2Bcover.sep21.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1830" data-original-width="2009" height="291" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HQ6e-awJXqY/YUlKARr5HZI/AAAAAAAAA18/J7XEG-Z0rUAI0jFm8vWAxpJR1UvxbDCRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Jrnl.blog%2Bgeneral%2Bcover.sep21.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What's the cover of your journal look like? <br />This unique collage cover inspires.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever kept a journal? </span></b></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If so, what kind? I don't mean - bullet journal, Midori, Hobonichi, or spiral notebook. I mean, regardless of the paper stock and binding preferences, what was your purpose for journaling? What did you record? Pretty art work? To do lists? Deepest thoughts?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Our new unit</span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why am I asking? Because our Tuesday morning group decided this month to narrow their topic choice from practical spelling, herbs & spices, and sugar in our bodies to journal writing. That's right - for the next two months they'll be devoted to journal writing.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Where to start</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, what knowledge and skills should they take away from this instruction? What essential questions will get learners most engaged? What do they need to know about journal writing that will sustain them into the future? All important questions.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Our first questions however were: "What do we already know?" and "What do we want to learn?" We quickly determined that our knowledge was tied pretty much to diaries. In fact, learners who are reading</span><span> </span><i>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl<span> </span></i><span>were quite certain that that's what journals were all about. However, when questioned, learners were not interested in listing what they did all day. Unlike Anne Frank's life, they assured me their lives were too dull to write about. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What would you do?</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What would you include in this unit if you were teaching it? What would you want to learn from this unit?</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">My next step appeared very clear at this point. I had to introduce them to journals that weren't merely about describing their day-to-day activities. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Want to see how this works out? Follow us. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Guest blogger - D. Young. <a href="https://adultliteracyissuesinstructionimpact.blogspot.com/2021/09/journaling-what-do-we-know.html" target="_blank">This article first published in Adult Literacy: Issues, Instruction, & Impact.</a></span></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-34346189732341786252021-04-05T08:00:00.010-06:002021-09-26T09:14:34.289-06:00Speed Date Results<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ud4ZxnU8VLw/YE6Dpntk17I/AAAAAAAAA0g/bC7JN75P_xMv09Czp-hIIUhlyYP9q1XxQCPcBGAYYCw/s1023/Picture%2Bof%2B6%2Bbook%2Bcovers%2Bfor%2Bspeed%2Bdate.Mar21.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Picture of front covers of six books." border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="955" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ud4ZxnU8VLw/YE6Dpntk17I/AAAAAAAAA0g/bC7JN75P_xMv09Czp-hIIUhlyYP9q1XxQCPcBGAYYCw/w299-h320/Picture%2Bof%2B6%2Bbook%2Bcovers%2Bfor%2Bspeed%2Bdate.Mar21.png" title="Front covers of 6 books: Zlata's Diary; Mississippi Trial, 1955; Wolf Hollow; Ann Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl; Ella Minnow Pea; & The Outsiders." width="299" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Front covers of 6 books: Zlata's Diary; Mississippi Trial, 1955; Wolf Hollow; Ann Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl; Ella Minnow Pea; & The Outsiders.</div></span> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">We did it! We speed dated. With an internet setup, anyone
who missed Monday’s class was able to add his or her input, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Criteria</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">What did a book have to do to get votes? Get the most votes on five questions. The responses to these questions had no gray areas this year. Respondents either said yes or no.
Simple as that.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The five questions were quite simple, too. These questions, by the way, evolved from a group brainstorm about what learners cared about when picking a book. We fine-tuned the list to these elements: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Summary: Did the information in the summary grab
my attention? </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Hook: Did the words on the first page grab my
attention or hook me into wanting to read more?</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">V</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">ocabulary: Did the first page have less than
five words that were hard for me to say or understand? </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Imagery: Did the words on the first page create
pictures in my mind? </span></span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Characters: Do I have something in common with
the characters as they are presented on the first page and in the summary?</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Results</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can see from the chart below that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mississippi Trial, 1955</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anne
Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl </i>were in close competition. One percent is not a significant difference. Yet, were they?
If you look at the percentages related to vocabulary and characters, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mississippi Trial, 1955</i> came out
stronger. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span>Books</span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Q1 Sum<span> </span><span> Q2 Hook<span> Q3 Voc<span> Q4 Imagery<span> Q5 Char<span> Ave %</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Mississippi </span></span></span></span></span></span></o:p><o:p>Trial, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>71% 71% </o:p>71% 100% 43% 71%</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ella Minnow<span> </span>Pea -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>43% 29% </o:p>43% 43% 14% 34%</p><p class="MsoNormal">The Outsiders -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> 57% 71% </o:p>71% 86% 43% 66%</p><p class="MsoNormal">Wolf Hollow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> 71% 71% </o:p>43% 71% 29% 57%</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">Zlata's Diary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> 71% 86% </o:p>43% 71% 29% 57%</p><p class="MsoNormal">Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl ----------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 100</span>% 100% </o:p>43% 86% 29% 72%</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chart: Percentages reported for each of the five questions.<o:p></o:p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Winner</span></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">All in all, the group was happy that <i>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl </i>had won. Several learners
entered these dates declaring that they wanted <i>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl </i>to win.<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Based on their ratings, the vocabulary of most of these
books would be challenging, with <i>Anne
Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl </i>being no exception. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The history around this story is rich and compelling. We
look forward to building vocabulary and understanding about a period of history
through a young girl’s eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have you read <i>Anne
Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl</i>?<i> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">If
you have any resources that will help us read this book, please leave a comment
below so we may follow up.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><br /></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-81319277817340530292021-03-16T09:00:00.022-06:002021-03-16T09:00:07.731-06:00Have you speed dated lately? Here's our story... <p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ud4ZxnU8VLw/YE6Dpntk17I/AAAAAAAAA0c/iGvNw34LsfsyGUl6dAU9bGlgOt-3ZK8nACLcBGAsYHQ/s1023/Picture%2Bof%2B6%2Bbook%2Bcovers%2Bfor%2Bspeed%2Bdate.Mar21.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="6 book covers: Zlata's Diary, Mississippi Trial 1955, Wolf Hollow, The Diary of a Young Girl, Ella Minnow Pea, & The Outsiders" border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="955" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ud4ZxnU8VLw/YE6Dpntk17I/AAAAAAAAA0c/iGvNw34LsfsyGUl6dAU9bGlgOt-3ZK8nACLcBGAsYHQ/w299-h320/Picture%2Bof%2B6%2Bbook%2Bcovers%2Bfor%2Bspeed%2Bdate.Mar21.png" title="Our six dates: Zlata's Diary; Mississippi Trial, 1955; Wolf Hollow; Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl; Ella Minnow Pea; & The Outsiders" width="299" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Our six dates: <i>Zlata's Diary</i>; <i>Mississippi Trial, 1955</i>; <i>Wolf Hollow</i>; <br /><i>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl</i>; <i>Ella Minnow Pea</i>; & <i>The Outsiders</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Speed Dating 2021 Style</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We've speed dated before...in person. Last summer and now this week, we're having to do it over Zoom. Showing books one at a time with no smell (important feature of real books) or touch is awkward. So I took all the elements we loved best and devised a way to date online.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Just so you know, we are not a dating service. When I say speed date, I'm talking about matching people with books, of course. To get a flavor of past dates, read <a href="https://literacyactioncenter.blogspot.com/2016/06/speed-dating_17.html" target="_blank"><i>Speed Dating</i></a> and <i><a href="https://literacyactioncenter.blogspot.com/2016/08/slc-adult-new-readers-book-group-dilemma.html" target="_blank">SLC Adult New Readers Book Group Dilemma</a>.</i> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Best-Loved Elements</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The elements we loved best during in-person dating:</span></p><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>1. Daters determine criteria for evaluating the books</span><br /><span><br /></span></span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>2. Collect data in one place, then learners calculate percentage of categories and overall book averages</span><br /></span><ol style="text-align: left;"><p></p></ol><span style="font-size: large;"><span>3. Make front cover, summary, & first page available for review </span><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>4. Set specific time for reviewing and rating each book (~7 minutes per book)</span><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>5. Option to work with a partner or independently</span><br /></span><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Online Solutions</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Since we are still restricted to online interactions, here are the online tools which have provided the best solutions for this round of dating:</span></p><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>■ Create Google slide deck containing book information (book cover, summary, & first page of text for each book)</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>■ Set up Google forms to collect responses to the learners' criteria-focused questions and calculate question data</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>■ Use Google classroom to distribute Google slide deck to learners</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>■ Sign into Zoom so we may work together, review the assignment details, and then send partners out to work in breakout rooms </span></span></div><div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">■ </span><span style="font-size: large;">Create a table in Google sheets* to compile data, perform calculations, & ponder data interpretation </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">*</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Our group is working on building spreadsheets with equations. While speed dating is a reading activity, speed dating data lets us practice our math skills, thus reinforcing math in every day life.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">What about you?</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here's the six books we're dating this week. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Which book would you pick?</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Please tell us in the comments below.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ud4ZxnU8VLw/YE6Dpntk17I/AAAAAAAAA0c/iGvNw34LsfsyGUl6dAU9bGlgOt-3ZK8nACLcBGAsYHQ/s1023/Picture%2Bof%2B6%2Bbook%2Bcovers%2Bfor%2Bspeed%2Bdate.Mar21.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="6 book covers: Zlata's Diary, Mississippi Trial 1955, Wolf Hollow, The Diary of a Young Girl, Ella Minnow Pea, & The Outsiders" border="0" data-original-height="1023" data-original-width="955" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ud4ZxnU8VLw/YE6Dpntk17I/AAAAAAAAA0c/iGvNw34LsfsyGUl6dAU9bGlgOt-3ZK8nACLcBGAsYHQ/w299-h320/Picture%2Bof%2B6%2Bbook%2Bcovers%2Bfor%2Bspeed%2Bdate.Mar21.png" title="Our six dates: Zlata's Diary; Mississippi Trial, 1955; Wolf Hollow; Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl; Ella Minnow Pea; & The Outsiders" width="299" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Our six dates: <i>Zlata's Diary</i>; <i>Mississippi Trial, 1955</i>; <i>Wolf Hollow</i>;<br /><i>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl</i>; <i>Ella Minnow Pea</i>; & <i>The Outsiders<br /><br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In our next post, we'll share </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">our criteria and reveal the winning book. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p></div>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-44725150370632865892021-01-24T16:29:00.000-07:002021-01-24T16:29:07.285-07:00Podcasts: Tell us. What interests you?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gEg7ubmv_tk/X49kYwW8NOI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/u_XO7Kcvo2QAYI_mpcHdHoKUHwhTZWf8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1762/microphone%2Bclose%2Bup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1580" data-original-width="1762" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gEg7ubmv_tk/X49kYwW8NOI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/u_XO7Kcvo2QAYI_mpcHdHoKUHwhTZWf8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/microphone%2Bclose%2Bup.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Podcasting has come of age. And, we are joining in...</b></span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We have a question for you. See below.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This pandemic has increased the growth of podcasting as a way of sharing one's message.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>We, at Literacy Action Center, decided podcasting is a way we can let people know we are still here helping people. </span><span>Why? </span></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Externally, our focus is on increasing awareness and generating funding opportunities. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Internally, our focus is on helping learners grow marketable skills as well as help them develop their voices and become stronger advocates of themselves. </span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Progress</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Let me start by explaining the "we." We are a group of learners and tutors interested in expressing ourselves through audio. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We've been meeting twice a week since May 2020. No, we don't have a polished podcast for you to listen to yet. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We are still experimenting and exploring with all aspects of producing these podcasts. But we have finally made these decisions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>Just this month, we identified a platform - player.fm (part of Acorn). </span>We're working on cover art. We've selected a name - </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>Adult Literacy Matters: </span>Coming Together; Changing Lives</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span><b>Format</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>Identifying a format has taken most of our time. Our initial practice has focused on developing our interviewing skills by interviewing </span>many learners about who they are, their reasons for coming to our center, and their recommendations for other adults needing help. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>More recently, we've explored the idea of panel discussions. For example, three learners talked about their favorite restaurants and literacy issues related to eating at restaurants. Another panel looked at a McDonald's menu and discussed what they saw and understood about these menus. (Very eye-opening.) </span>Another group talked about medications - instructions, dosages, and side-effects - and the impact of their literacy issues on keeping themselves and their families safe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Your Support</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Are these two formats of interest to you? Are there other formats we should be considering? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Please tell us. </b></span><b style="font-family: arial;">What interests you?</b></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> <span style="text-align: center;"><b>What would get you to </b></span><b style="text-align: center;">listen to our podcast?</b></span></p><blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-77371781385197307062020-10-17T09:00:00.002-06:002020-10-19T13:27:11.929-06:002020 Voting in Utah - Starts Now<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yWaHPyHBrfI/X4pUC4JDl1I/AAAAAAAAAzA/w1IzqwNaupAr9Syvp4Gxi5n68w27VhAMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s407/vote%2Bsign.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="395" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yWaHPyHBrfI/X4pUC4JDl1I/AAAAAAAAAzA/w1IzqwNaupAr9Syvp4Gxi5n68w27VhAMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/vote%2Bsign.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">The time is now.</b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Utah ballots are in our mailboxes.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Did you know...</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;">15 people running for U.S. President are listed on our Utah ballot? For example, the first name on the ballot is an entrepreneur who was a child actor and currently lives in Puerto Rico. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">8 people are running for Utah governor? For example, one of the candidates is co-owner of a chiropractic office in Ogden. Another candidate is a bariatric surgeon.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">6 amendments to our Utah Constitution need your attention?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">1 state supreme court justice is up for retention? </span></li></ul><p></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Find out more about what's on your ballot, then vote!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Utah ballots have three sections: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(1) Candidates for offices at the federal, state, and local levels.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(2) Statewide ballot questions - 7 amendments to the Utah Constitution</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(3) Judge retention, including one of our Utah Supreme Court justices</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Many resources available online today.</b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here are three resources that will help with your specific Utah 2020 ballot:</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://Vote.utah.gov" target="_blank">Vote.utah.gov</a> is a state-prepared site that let's you not only track your mailed-in vote but find information about the candidates, constitutional questions, and judges. You type in your address then you will see only what's on your ballot - the races associated with your voting precinct. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.lwvutah.org/voter-info" target="_blank">League of Women Voters Utah</a> publishes a booklet presenting lists of candidates, details and arguments for and against the constitutional amendments, and data and links to aid in deciding judge retention decisions. (After clicking on link, click on blue box on left side labeled: "2020 Utah Voter Information Pamphlet" for the pdf containing this information.) </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At <a href="http://judges.utah.gov" target="_blank">judges.utah.gov</a>, select "Judges by County - 2020 Election" on the left side of the screen. Then narrow your search to the county you live in. This site is set up by the Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission. You'll see review reports and background information for each judge currently up for retention. (Note: Utah Supreme Court Justice John Pearce is listed with other Appellate court judges.) </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yWaHPyHBrfI/X4pUC4JDl1I/AAAAAAAAAzE/aaZboTzOMTUh_pvPr93WunS8Claq2nKQACPcBGAYYCw/s407/vote%2Bsign.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="395" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yWaHPyHBrfI/X4pUC4JDl1I/AAAAAAAAAzE/aaZboTzOMTUh_pvPr93WunS8Claq2nKQACPcBGAYYCw/s320/vote%2Bsign.png" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-36752421568197411982020-10-12T11:00:00.004-06:002020-10-15T07:40:43.974-06:00Stories for Reading Practice<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_c9S8t_L1xE/X4hPJrDXr2I/AAAAAAAAAy0/M9qpZibeox0omgf2Qeqf6l7dMYn1KSE3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s435/Books%2B%2526%2Bglasses.feb20%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="435" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_c9S8t_L1xE/X4hPJrDXr2I/AAAAAAAAAy0/M9qpZibeox0omgf2Qeqf6l7dMYn1KSE3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Books%2B%2526%2Bglasses.feb20%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p><b>We are always looking for a range of stories for beginning adult readers to read to us
for three reasons:</b></p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">(1) practice fluency, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">(2) develop comprehension skills, and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">(3) build vocabulary. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Listed below are typically single page stories that may often be read through in a single setting. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here is a list of sites that are offering free stories that
can be used for all three reasons listed above:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Clark Ness’s site (<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.clarkness.com/">http://www.clarkness.com/</a></span>) has a
long list of very simple stories, especially good for beginners. All of his
work includes pictures. Way at the bottom of his web site are a few longer
pieces.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">This site <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://fres.wpusd.org/subsites/Carol-Anderson/Fluency-Practice/">http://fres.wpusd.org/subsites/Carol-Anderson/Fluency-Practice/</a></span>
contains 5 sets of (fluency) stories. Each set (pdf) has 20 stories. At the
bottom of each story is a speed. This speeds indicate the longest time the
pieces should take to read aloud. Reading aloud should be with expression and
with no errors. These stories range from first to sixth grade.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Anker’s site (<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.henryanker.com/FluencyMasters.html">http://www.henryanker.com/FluencyMasters.html</a></span>)
contains twenty K-5<sup>th</sup> grade level passages, ten 6-8<sup>th</sup>
grade level passages, and thirty-five 9-12<sup>th</sup> grade level passages. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Think Fluency’s site <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.thinkfluency.com/reading-passages/">http://www.thinkfluency.com/reading-passages/</a></span>
contains six passages for each of five grade levels (grades 1 – 5). </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Mrs. Warner’s Learning Community (<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://mrswarnerarlington.weebly.com/fluency-practice.html">https://mrswarnerarlington.weebly.com/fluency-practice.html</a></span>)
suggests that fourth graders should end the year reading at least 118 wpm. Her
site includes 3<sup>rd</sup> grade passages (4 easy, 4 average, 4 advanced), 4<sup>th</sup>
grade passages (4 easy, 4 average, 4 advanced), eight 5<sup>th</sup> grade
passages, and eight 6<sup>th</sup> grade passages. </span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please use these stories with learners. Together, decide which stories work best for each learner.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Enjoy!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">PS </span><span style="font-size: large;">The picture above is misleading. Why? This picture represents some great books for reading together, but these are not the stories listed below. The books in the photo require great amounts of work - rereading, retelling, and summarizing - for our adults to be able to read them. That's why we read these types of books over time in small groups. Eventually, these books become approachable and readable for our adults. In the beginning, however, one-page stories from the sites listed above help our learners grow site vocabulary one-page-at-a-time chunks. </span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-49270501068947265282020-08-24T18:09:00.005-06:002020-09-15T16:37:14.621-06:003 Job Openings: Teachers & Coordinator <span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
</span><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's your opportunity to join us:</span></h1><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://literacyactioncenter.blogspot.com/2020/07/job-opening-program-coordinator_29.html" target="_blank">1 Program Coordinator</a></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://literacyactioncenter.blogspot.com/2020/08/literacy-action-center-job-posting.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">2 Licensed Teachers</span></a></h2><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
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</span><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Who are We?</span></h1>
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We are an adult literacy organization serving Salt Lake and Davis Counties in Utah, USA. <span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">We help English-speaking adults, who struggle with reading, writing, and math, increase literacy and </span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">technology skills and build career pathways so they can easily transition into high school completion programs, trade school or college coursework, and careers so they can thrive at home and as members of our neighborhoods.</span></span><span br="" gt="" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<h2><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://literacyactioncenter.blogspot.com/2020/07/job-opening-program-coordinator_29.html" target="_blank">1 Program Coordinator</a></span></h2><h2><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://literacyactioncenter.blogspot.com/2020/08/literacy-action-center-job-posting.html" target="_blank">2 Licensed Teachers</a></span></h2><h2><br /></h2></div><div><h2 style="background-color: white; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="">Then Apply - </span>Follow the application requirements below.</span></h2><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="" style="background-color: white;">Send your resume, your contact information for three references, and a one-to-two page letter specifically describing your qualifications and reasons for interest in this position, to: <b>board@LiteracyActionCenter.org.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;" /></span><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Literacy Action Center, 3595 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84115-4434</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Telephone 801/265-9081 · Fax 801/265-9643 · E-mail lac@LiteracyActionCenter.org</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Web www.LiteracyActionCenter.org · Visit our web sites. Read our blogs. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Like us</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> & share on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Facebook</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">.</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No person shall be denied services because of race, religion, color, sex, disability, age, or national origin.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-59562628823993359252020-08-24T17:33:00.006-06:002020-10-26T09:29:23.747-06:00Job Openings: 2 Teachers<!--logo-->
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><br style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;" /><h2><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Job Title: Teacher (2 positions open)</span></h2><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> Hours: Both positions are part-time, up to thirty hours per week</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Salary Range: $20,000-$40,000 per teacher (grant funded)</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Benefits: This is a non-benefited position</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Reports to: Program Coordinator</span></div><p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><br /></p><h3><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Summary</span></h3><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Literacy Action Center, a 501(c)(3), is seeking 2 dynamic individuals to teach low-literate, English-speaking adults, who enter our program with a range of learning and social disabilities, and work with volunteers. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Since 1985, we’ve been helping this population of adults living in Salt Lake & Davis Counties, Utah, become skilled, passionate, habitual, critical readers, writers, and math-fluent learners, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">tech savvy, and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">ready for college or careers. With our learner-driven, learner-focused curriculum, we have a proven track </span><span style="font-family: arial;">record of meeting or exceeding most performance measures set by the Utah State Board of Education. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">(Note: We are not an ESL/ELL program.) </span></div><div><p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">These positions are exciting opportunities for forward-thinking individuals with proven expertise to assist underserved low-literate, English-speaking adults to i</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ncrease their reading, writing, math, and tech skills for academic achievement tests and realia. Help them </span><span style="font-family: arial;">accomplish their personal goals. Integrate and deliver college-career readiness and technology into curriculum. Assist </span><span style="font-family: arial;">and support learners in making transitions. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Teach and support volunteer tutors to work with adult learners. Work as a team </span><span style="font-family: arial;">member with other teachers, learners, and volunteer tutors and be open to learning from them. </span></p><p><br /></p><h3><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Essential Functions & Duties</span></h3><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Help our learners positively increase their everyday literacy skills, effectively raise </span><span style="font-family: arial;">their academic test scores, successfully transition to college and careers, and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">efficiently negotiate their environments. Help our learners become more effective </span><span style="font-family: arial;">critical thinkers, problem-solvers, team members, and digital-literacy users. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Collaboration</u></span></h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Collaborate on the development and delivery of effective learner-centered lesson </span><span style="font-family: arial;">plans that focus on specific objectives and essential learner-identified and state-</span><span style="font-family: arial;">mandated outcome measures.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Work collaboratively and effectively with multi-level groups, individual learners, and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">volunteer tutors. Work as a team with teachers, learners, tutors, and program </span><span style="font-family: arial;">coordinator. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Provide office support, as needed. Support may include answering phones, making </span><span style="font-family: arial;">copies, and calling learners as well as leading or assisting with events and trainings. </span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Learner Instruction</u></span></h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Deliver effective instruction in all aspects of phonics, reading, language, math, and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">college-career curricula for both face-to-face and online instruction (both </span><span style="font-family: arial;">synchronous and asynchronous) and for large, small, or one-on-one groupings. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Organize instructional around College-Career Readiness Standards, Bloom's </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Taxonomy, & Depth of Knowledge. Incorporate technologies & learner goals. Include </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Universal Design principles. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Teach adults with a range of literacy and learning abilities in classroom, small group, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">online, and one-on-one settings. Adapt teaching/learning strategies or materials </span><span style="font-family: arial;">based on situations. Draw from a wide range of teaching methods and learning </span><span style="font-family: arial;">strategies. Recognize and adjust for issues impacting adult learners, including a </span><span style="font-family: arial;">repertoire of learning methods and adaptable strategies.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Effectively present information orally, visually, and digitally. Demonstrate effective </span><span style="font-family: arial;">listening and questioning skills in response to inquiries and misunderstandings. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Exhibit strong comprehension skills, English grammar skills, operational math skills, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">problem solving skills, and spelling skills. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Listen and ask questions before making assumptions or decisions. Willingly take </span><span style="font-family: arial;">direction from and/or use feedback from other teachers, tutors, learners, and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">program coordinator to enhance instruction.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Oversee and contribute to online learning sites, blogs, etc. Continually grow </span><span style="font-family: arial;">technology knowledge and skills - productivity software, educational software, and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">instructional usage. Keep abreast of career content for most common, highly-</span><span style="font-family: arial;">employable fields, such as nursing, food industry, computer science, or electronics, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">as well as specific fields identified by learners. </span></li></ul><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u><br /></u></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Tutor Training</u></span></h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Educate and support volunteer tutors in developing effective teaching techniques, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">instructional methods, and technologies to work with adult learners. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Organize and supervise volunteer tutors to work one-on-one or in small groups with </span><span style="font-family: arial;">adult learners on tasks that move adult learners toward their ultimate goals. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Effectively instruct and guide multiple learners and tutors working in a range of </span><span style="font-family: arial;">content area materials simultaneously. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Participate as part of team in delivering face-to-face and online Tutor Training </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Workshops and Tutor Talks (5 times annually). Oversee and contribute to online </span><span style="font-family: arial;">training site.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Ongoing Development</u></span></h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Participate in ongoing professional development activities. Read, analyze, and apply </span><span style="font-family: arial;">information from online webinars, face-to-face meetings, conferences, general periodicals, professional journals, web materials, technical </span><span style="font-family: arial;">procedures, or governmental regulations to teaching situation. Share what you learn.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Participate in scheduled staff and lesson planning meetings.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Environment</u></span></h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Keep areas safe, clean, and neat. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Contribute to an upbeat, positive atmosphere. Facilitate all aspects of classroom </span><span style="font-family: arial;">dynamics, while recognizing and honoring diversity, and maintaining a safe, nurturing </span><span style="font-family: arial;">environment. Ensure that everyone is respectful of all people involved with Literacy </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Action Center. Offer genuine encouragement. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Recognize and mediate educational and interpersonal communication issues in the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">classroom. Use appropriate options based on specific situations.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Believe in yourself, our awesome learners, and our amazing volunteers. Believe in all of </span><span style="font-family: arial;">your abilities to transform adults' lives.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Be flexible, dependable, kind, and sensitive with a sense of humor. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Be a lifelong learner as well as a teacher. Be willing to grow as an instructional </span><span style="font-family: arial;">leader and learning facilitator.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Assessments & Documentation</u></span></h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Recognize problems and issues, collect data, and draw valid conclusions. Interpret </span><span style="font-family: arial;">an extensive variety of technical instructions in reading, writing, and math </span><span style="font-family: arial;">methodology and deal with several abstract and concrete variables simultaneously </span><span style="font-family: arial;">while explaining them in simplest terms to a group of learners with a range of abilities </span><span style="font-family: arial;">and understandings.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Understand importance and expectations of assessment, attendance, state/federal </span><span style="font-family: arial;">targets, and NRS standards. Work to meet or exceed these requirements.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Collect, analyze, and record results following all lessons. Encourage discussion </span><span style="font-family: arial;">about instructional delivery. Adapt lessons based on feedback. Document and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">submit all lesson plans, attendance, and progress data daily.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Complete TABE and CASAS training. Follow learner orientation, intake, pre-and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">post-testing, and learning plan protocols. Score and deliver test results. Write up </span><span style="font-family: arial;">learning plans. Write and deliver test and plan information to learners' sponsors. </span></li></ul><p></p><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Minimum Qualifications</b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></h2><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Bachelor’s degree required. Current teaching license preferred. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Experience in teaching or tutoring basic reading, writing, or math instruction with English-speaking </span><span style="font-family: arial;">adults with learning difficulties preferred.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Online technology skills important.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Proven track record for growing learner skills, educating and supporting tutors, and working in a learner-centered educational setting is preferred.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Strong interpersonal skills required. Must be able to understand personality types and (re)act </span><span style="font-family: arial;">appropriately. </span></li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><h2><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To Apply</span></h2><p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Send your resume, your contact information for three references, and a one-to-two page letter specifically describing your qualifications and reasons for interest in this position, to: <b>board@LiteracyActionCenter.org.</b></span><br /><br /><br /></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Literacy Action Center, 3595 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84115-4434</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Telephone 801/265-9081 · Fax 801/265-9643 · E-mail lac@LiteracyActionCenter.org</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Web www.LiteracyActionCenter.org · Visit our web sites. 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<span face="">Since 1985, we've been helping these adults living in Salt Lake and Davis Counties, Utah, to become skilled, passionate, habitual, critical readers, writers, and math-fluent learners, tech savvy, and ready for college or careers. <span style="font-family: arial;">With our learner-driven, learner-focused curriculum, w</span>e have a proven record of meeting or exceeding most performance measures set by the Utah State Board of Education.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">(Note: We are not an ESL/ELL program.) </span><br />
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<span face="">This position is an exciting opportunity for an forward-thinking individual with proven leadership and fundraising skills to ensure that Literacy Action Center continues to assist underserved learners in reaching their literacy goals, thus enhancing the community that we all live in.</span><br />
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<li><span face="">Oversees delivery and quality of educational programs for learners in coordination with teachers, volunteers, and learners.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Creates and maintains a safe, healthy, positive work environment for volunteers, staff, and learners.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Directs operation and maintenance of office and instructional facilities.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Assures that the center and its mission, programs, and services are consistently presented in a strong, positive image to relevant stakeholders.</span></li>
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<b><u><span face="">Culture</span></u></b><br />
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<li><span face="">Actively promotes a culture of encouragement, belonging, and improvement, where growth of each learners is paramount.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Advises staff appropriate to the needs of learners.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Encourages diversity, meets learners where they are in the learning process.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Creates and maintains a safe, healthy, positive work environment for volunteers, staff, and learners.</span></li>
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<li><span face="">Builds strong relationships with board members, community partners, and prospective donors.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Serves as a resource to the board - reporting budgets, meeting logistics, routine communications, and overall happenings of the center.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Attends all meetings of the board as a nonvoting member.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Provides the board with background for decisions, policies, and strategic plans.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Collaborates and implements decisions made by the board and reports back on findings or progress.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Recommends ideas, judgments, and policies that positively impact the center's mission, operations, and overall governance. </span></li>
<li><span face="">Assists with board recruitment, training, and retention. </span></li>
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<b><u><span face="">Fund Raising & Financial Management</span></u></b><br />
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<li><span face="">Establishes and maintains community partners, ensures steady positive financial flow and security for the center.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Prepares annual budget and prudently manages all income, expenditures, and other organizational resources, based on center's policies and subject to approval by the board.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Plans and implements fundraising programs, including identifying resource requirements and researching funding sources.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Establishes strategies for funder relationships, plans.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Collaborates and implements decisions made by the board and reports back on findings or progress.</span></li>
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<li><span face="">Oversees collection, entry, and accuracy of all data, including attendance, testing, and financials.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Provides two-to-four hours per week of classroom support.</span></li>
<li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="">Oversees and effectively manages the human resources of the organization, including recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, coordinating, motivating, retaining, and evaluating both employees and volunteers.</span></span></li>
<li><span face="">Adheres to appropriate laws and policies relevant to the center.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Responds to inquiries or complaints from learners, volunteers, staff, regulatory agencies, or members of the community.</span></li>
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<span face=""><b><u>Marketing & Social Presence</u></b>
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<li><span face="">Displays working knowledge of social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube)</span></li>
<li><span face="">Illustrates knowledge of engaging stakeholders and viewers on social media platforms.</span></li>
<li><span face="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Creates a strong social presence to promote the center to social media viewers.</span></li>
<li><span face="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Actively contributes to social media platforms to enhance social presence. </span></li>
<li><span face="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Uses social media to attract, retain and promote the center’s stakeholders.</span></li>
<li><span face="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Serves as the public presence of the center.</span></li>
<li><span face="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Effectively communicates the vision, mission and purpose of the center to stakeholders. </span></li>
<li><span face="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Acts as the center’s liaison to public events, donors, sponsors, and all external operations. </span></li>
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<span face=""><span face=""><br /></span><b><u><span face="">Physical Demands</span></u></b><br /><span face="">The successful candidate must perform the essential functions of the job, work well in both an office and classroom environment, and possess basic computer skills. This employee must occasionally life or move up to twenty pounds. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet but at times may be quite noisy. This job requires regular interaction with learners, volunteers, staff, board, funders, and the general public.</span></span><div><span face=""><br /></span>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face=""><b>Minimum Qualifications</b>
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<li><span face="">Bachelor's degree required; one to two years related experience and/or training are preferred.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Track record for raising funds, supervising individuals, raising academic achievements, and overseeing a growing educational organization is essential.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Demonstrated ability to create an effective website and social media presence is preferred.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Excellent writing and communication skills, including the ability to read, analyze, and interpret financial reports and legal documents is required.</span></li>
<li><span face="">Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel, and Publisher, is required.</span></li>
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<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>To Apply</b></h2>
<span face="">Send your resume, your contact information for three references, and a one-to-two page letter specifically describing your qualifications and reasons for interest in this position, to: <b>board@LiteracyActionCenter.org.</b></span><br />
<br /><br /><h3><span face=""><u><b>For Further Inquiries</b> </u></span></h3><span face="">For further questions and information, email: <b>board@LiteracyActionCenter.org</b>.</span><br />
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<br /></div>Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-63931580941737559652020-07-23T09:47:00.001-06:002020-07-30T11:42:56.485-06:00Kitchen Tools & the Six Simple Machines - The Quiz<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our investigation of kitchen tools or gadgets is a result of our cooking unit. One focus of this unit is about cooking tools. Because of the pandemic, face-to-face instruction is out of the question. So, we adapted this section to get us to look in our own kitchen cupboards and drawers. You can see some of the gadgets <a href="https://literacyactioncenter.blogspot.com/2020/05/cooking-tools-which-ones-do-you-know.html" target="_blank">we found at our learner site</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We spent weeks exploring the science behind these gadgets - learning about the six basic machines that underlie all gadgets and tools, even kitchen ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We learned <a href="https://www.livescience.com/49106-simple-machines.html)" target="_blank">from Live Science </a>that th<span style="color: #565555;"><span style="color: black;">ese six machines help:</span></span><span style="color: #565555;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">increase the magnitude of a force, or</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that we're done studying - identifying how these tools use the principals behind the six simple machines, we are ready to take a quiz.</span><br />
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<br />Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-30248735057973632020-07-09T10:00:00.000-06:002020-07-30T09:08:52.370-06:00If cell phone's are on, then why is their use highly limited?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Most of us are rather mobile, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>especially during this pandemic.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We get on our phones and connect. We use our phones to communicate - send messages, share events, Zoom with family and friends, be entertained, get reports, search for answers, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">waste time</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, watch videos, and even </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">earn money</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi, this is Deb. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Teaching at Literacy Action Center can be eye-opening at times. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Putting everyone into this pandemic situation has definitely intensified some aspects of life - for all of us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the years,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've seen many adults with limited reading skills (and living in poverty situations) have cell phones. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even though these cell phones may be w</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">hat learners call government or Obama phones, these phones </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">tend to be newer and full of features. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I've come to realize over the past few months however is that these adults have these powerful tools with them 24/7 but don't necessarily use them to do any of the tasks and opportunities listed in the opening paragraph above. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>What if your literacy skills were an issue? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>You struggle to type the simplest text message or email. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not because your typing speed is slow but you don't know how to spell. You lose the words you want to say as you start spelling the first word. And yeah, the words pop up as you type but you haven't a clue as to what they say. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Someone set up your Facebook account. You get lots of posts. You've learned how to like and share them, but you don't understand how these messages get made or posted....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's just the beginning of the massive amount of print bombarding you daily (during these trying times) that makes no sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">That's the plight of </span></b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">over </span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">70,000 adults </span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">living in the </span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">greater </span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Salt Lake County (Utah) area. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's why I say:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cell phones are on, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but their use is highly limited.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What can you do to change this situation?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These adults are envious of you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They want to do what you do. Cell phone usage is just one of many literacy (and technology) skills these adults want to learn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For example, West wants to pass the driver license test so he can look for jobs outside of the bus system. He also wants the sense of freedom that having legal access to a car gives us. Jeff wants to read letters from his great aunt so he may learn more about his family's history. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other adults are tired of asking others for help while they hide what they don't know or understand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One person at a time, we are helping </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">adults in our</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">community gain these much needed literacy skills. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You, too, can help these adults become skillful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>We'd be grateful for your support </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>as a tutor or a donor (or both). </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other possibilities? Just ask. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Call or text 801/839-9522.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">We've been Zooming since Wednesday, March 18. We needed several weeks to get familiar with the Zoom environment - teaching each other about the ins and outs of navigating conversation and instruction online. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Note: What did this have to do with adult literacy? Everything. Learners had to think. They had to problem solve, use reasoning skills, and make interpretations. In some cases, learners Googled their ideas to further refine their knowledge about about how a gadget worked. And, they had to negotiate so they could come back to the group with a presentation. (We used Zoom's features to make this happen: breakout rooms, screen sharing, and screen annotations.) - Deb</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hallmark tells us to send a card to show we care. So, many of us do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A week ago, a learner came in excited about Valentine's Day. The learner told me that he'd never given anyone a Valentine card before. This year, he was sending a card to someone special - a young woman that he was getting to know and wanted to let her know that he liked her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This young man planned it out. He showed me the gift - a lovely necklace and earring set. He had a container to ship them in. He had the woman's mailing address. He was psyched. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That evening, we brainstormed the personal note he wanted to include with the card and gift. The learner then went on to write his Valentine note with help from a tutor. He left the center early that evening to buy his Valentine's Day card. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two nights later the learner showed me the card he had selected. I asked him to read the card to me. The card is pictured above - please take a moment to read it. <i>Really </i>read it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you see the fourth line? Do you see the words "my daughter?" He read "daughter" as "dear?" He thought the card was for a sweetheart, not a daughter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I did was discuss the message of the card versus the message the learner wanted to send. Then, we brainstormed what words he wanted the next card to say so that he could pick a more appropriate card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't see the card that was sent this week. The learner got his roommate involved, instead. However, you should have seen the twinkle in this learner's eye as he reported to me that he had sent out his Valentine package. </span></div>
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<br />Literacy Action Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827974668929808473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258430543653784000.post-76418569032457239682019-10-16T09:00:00.000-06:002019-10-16T09:00:09.583-06:00NOW Training<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paul, Betsy, and I spent one long, quick-paced week in June
learning a new skill. We were learning the intricacies of NOW – Dr. Conway's Neuro-development of Words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This program, like several others on the market
that resulted from Lindamood Bell’s work, provide a gap between the mouth and
the hand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Phonics programs, in general, start by associating letter
names with sounds. For example, we practice /</span><span style="font-size: large;">ă</span><span style="font-size: large;">/, then read and write words
like cat, bat, and sat. Normally, that’s all most of us need. We learn to sound
out words. All is good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For some learners, however, they struggle with hearing or
feeling the sounds. Thus, phonics is lost on them. NOW is one program that bridges
this gap. NOW provides the pre-work to phonics instruction in two ways:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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make sounds and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wDyHbkUqtzw/XaVS_XbfTkI/AAAAAAAAAtw/UI5I73UbbM4RPltMiYyhGyyGMZrQBP37gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_0315%2B%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">NOW is not for every adult learner in our program. We’re
targeting adults who struggle at the lowest level either as readers or
spellers. We think both will benefit from this instruction. Time will tell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thank you to USBE’s adult education staff for letting us
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of our writing mentors </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">showed us a picture of a tiger hiding in the tall grass. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is my story.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tiger is looking for food and eating everything in sight. He lies down to take a long nap in the patch of grass. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Goals Define Actions </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Others were wondering why Keith was so insistent about finishing his volcano story by August 29th. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The impetus? He wrote a goal about it at the beginning of summer. He wanted to finish his goal on time. So impressive!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The power of goal setting and deadlines can push some of us into action. This was certainly the case for Keith. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Goal Setting</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Setting goals is tradition for some of us. In a teaching setting where careers are at stake, goal setting is crucial. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Goals give us something to aim for. Goals also allow us to lay out a road map.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">For academic settings, goals can be set at any time. We don't need to wait for New Year's Day or the start of the school year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last month, we used "What is the one goal I want to accomplish within the next thirty days?" as a writing prompt. After sharing and clapping for each person's goal, we guided writers into making these goals measurable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Then, as a constant reminder for the next thirty days, we typed up the goals and printed them as bookmarks. Learners referred to them continually each day. We also posted them on the front bulletin board available for all to see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyone who wasn't here on the day we set these goals became cheerleaders. Their task was to partner with someone with a goal and check in on the person's progress, offering help and verbal support along the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">We tagged the completed goals with hearts. We posted them on a classroom door. While each person set his/her own celebration activity for accomplishing the set goal, the group decided that when we have 95% success rate for all who set goals then we'd do a special celebration with the group. </span><br />
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