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Week 1- ** Introduction **** - **
 * Literacy in Our Lives: **// What does it mean to be literate? How is “literacy” defined? // //How might literacy take on different forms in different contexts?//


 * Articles: **

=Getting to know our WIKI=

Use this link for tutorials to help navigate our class wikispace:

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=Thinkfinity - Click Here= //Thinkfinity is the Verizon Foundation’s free online professional learning community, providing access to over 50,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 — aligned to state standards and the common core. //

//Here, educators connect and collaborate through themed groups, blogs and discussions, sharing resources and best practices that support 21st century teaching and learning. //

Thinkfinity WikiSpaces Print and Bring Article on "//Organizing Classroom for Literacy Instruction//"-DO NOT READ Read Chapter 1 of the Text
 * Assignment for next week: **
 * Join!! Then we will invite you to the group
 * Start a Discussion - What experience did you have in your earliest memories of school that help you to define literacy? As a HW assignment on THINKFINITY – write a brief narrative on your experience. Don't analyze, just tell the "story".
 * Post by Monday and then comment on at least 2 other narratives from our class, by indicating what you perceive the implications to be on our practice as literacy teachers
 * We will invite you!!
 * Find your name on the page that says "Introductions". It will be linked to a clean page. Click "edit" and introduce yourself in whatever fashion you choose.
 * Explore tutorials for Wikis to help you