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Focus on Environmental Print When your students return from winter break, connect to the various texts that they've read in the process of everyday life at home, work, and play. The ReadWriteThink lesson plan, From Stop Signs to the Golden Arches: Environmental Print (E) encourages young readers to search their community and homes for examples of environmental print, which are collected and made into a visual display. In "Negotiating Critical Literacies" (E) from School Talk, author Barbara Comber explores the analytical skills that students bring to advertisements and junk mail. The Reading Apprenticeship program described in the Voices from the Middle article "'Amidst Familial Gatherings': Reading Apprenticeship in a Middle School Classroom" (M) begins by asking students to identify the reading they do in everyday life before moving on to four key dimensions of classroom life: social (building community); personal (connecting to reading); cognitive (developing a tool kit); and knowledge-building (tapping resources). Invite students to investigate the advertisements and commercials they encountered over the winter break by using the strategies in the English Journal article “The Politics of Teleliteracy and Adbusting in the Classroom” (M-S), which starts with a global analysis then moves to an examination on a personal level. Read "Advertising and Interpretive Analysis: Developing Reading, Thinking, and Writing Skills in the Composition Course" (C) from Teaching English in the Two-Year College for details on ways that students can learn to "read" the cultural texts surrounding them. NOTE: Free access to journal articles mentioned in this Inbox is provided
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