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The Ten Best Ideas I Know To Begin Your New Literacies Journey

Donald J. Leu University of Connecticut

Step 1: Learn From Exceptional Online Teachers At Your Grade Level. • Google syntax to use: – X grade classroom homepage

Step 2. View online videos of new literacies in the classroom.

• View the WGBH program on new literacies in grades 3-5 by following links at: http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/teachreadi • Videos of the major instructional models for integrating the Internet into your classroom: http://ctell.uconn.edu/canter/canter_video.cfm?

Step 3. Use Starfall.com for early reading development

Step 4. Use Read Write Think at All Levels

STEP 5: Use ePals and Discover the Potential of Internet Project

STEP 6: Use Internet Workshop as An Instructional Model

Internet Workshop • Locate a central site(s) and set a bookmark. • Assign an activity requiring students to use the site(s). • Conduct a workshop session to share information.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/

http://MonarchWatch.org/

http://www.earthdaybags.org/

Step 7: Include The Reading Comprehension Skills of Searching for Information and Critical Evaluation

Challenge: Which site will take you to an Egyptologist, with no additional clicks? Learning Objective:

Evaluating search results What clues do the words after the link give me? Are the results in any special order? Who sponsors the site? What’s missing from this list? How do you know and Why does it matter?

Why Is Critical Evaluation So Important?

And for secondary teachers, how can we determine if Mr. Lee is REALLY preggers?

STEP 8: Help the last become first.

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Step 9. Explore The Potential of Wikipedia For Your Class

STEP 10: Keep A Patient Heart.

What Is The Most Important Lesson to Share From Our Work on the New Literacies of Reading Comprehension?

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