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A great adolescent literacy website link: adolescent literacy classroom strategies

Below are various adolescent literacy resources that we've done (or perhaps will do) in our class!

Title: Literacy In My Life Line 1: I am a person who _to read because…. Line 2: In first grade, ….. Line 3: If I ever wrote a book, it would be about… Line 4: Because of my students, I’ve learned that literacy…. Line 5: The key to good writing is…… Line 6: If there’s one book I could get all my students to read, it would be…. * Have students read their completed documents aloud * (these sentence starters can be tailored to your content/lesson) || * Tell students to get into partners. One student should be Partner A and the other Partner B. * Inform students that they will each have one minute to share all they know/opinions on that topic. * Call out a topic...set a timer for one minute. Then switch! || * Assign students to either pro or con. * Give students time to write a pro/con statements with supporting evidence. * pro/con statement skeleton: My Position is........................ Many people think that..............because............... However, I think that...............because............... Also because....................... In short, ...................because.................. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Assign students a topic you;ve been studying to write about. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Students should then write true statements about the topic, each line beginning with the corresponding letter of the alphabet. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Great activity for groups || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">In groups, students should rank the quotes in order of importance <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">This can be a good pre-reading or after-reading activity. It forces students to evaluate importance of different ideas of a reading. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">It can also be a good way to teach organization in writing. ||
 * **<span style="background-color: #34c5c0; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Literacy Activity ** || **<span style="background-color: #34c5c0; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Directions ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Add my two cents... ** || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">* After you copy each line, you will fold the paper (so what you’ve written is not visible) and pass the paper to the right.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Mime It, Act it, Draw it! ** || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">* You will be assigned one passage from our reading
 * In your group, you will need to find a way to mime, act, or draw the meaning
 * The rest of the class will have to guess the meaning of your passage.
 * After you reveal your passage, your group will be responsible for explaining this quote and its relevance. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Graffiti ** || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">* (create “topic posters” related to whatever topics/themes you may be studying)
 * Go around the room and stand next to the topic poster you are most interested in.
 * Tell someone in your group why you’re interested in this topic.
 * Tell someone in your group why other people DO NOT like this topic
 * Turn these negative comments into graffiti ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">**Timed Topic Talks** || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Begin by creating a list of topics for students to discuss. These should be topics that the students have already learned about and are quite familiar with. This is a good review activity.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Pro/Con Statements ** || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Create pro and con positions on a topic
 * Give students time to share pro/con statements with partners from the opposite sides ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">A-Z information ** || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Students should write the alphabet down the side of a page.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">**Write Around** || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">* Students respond to a question of your prompting in writing
 * Pass writing to a partner, who then responds in writing
 * You can continue the dialogue between these two partner or continue to include other class members responding in writing. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">**Order of Importance** || <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">* <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Type out quotes from a class text.