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"What's more, cultural models such as culturally responsive education often appear to be an "add-on" in schools and districts rather than the means of framing systems." As educators we continue to build our lessons with culturally responsiveness in mind. The literary world has slowly recognized that seclusion and discrimination affects literary opportunities for students of cultural diversity. Our research to find reading materials that allow students of diversity a way to see mirrors (identify themselves) should be evident when planning curriculum. Although, there continues to be a lack of culturally responsive text for diverse reading.

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" Historically, literacy was the root of all education including learning in the academic discipline areas of mathematics, science, and history.  Literacy societies focused on literacy development but were grounded in the learning of disciplines. Society meetings were not linear in their studies, and the literacy often enabled interdisciplinary understandings. This way of learning differs from classrooms today that oftentimes lack a literacy focus in the academic content areas of science, math, and social studies."

This passage refers to the importance of literacy instruction in all academic areas to help build a solid foundation of content knowledge. For example, it is beneficial to incorporate vocabulary, reading, and  writing in Math, Social Studies, and Science. Incorporating literacy in technical subjects creates a deeper understanding of both concrete and abstract ideas which leads to further inquiries in the learning process.

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" Literacy learning was highly collaborative, and a shared learning space was created."

ELA is a still very collaborative subject. Through novels we connect, reflect, analyze, synthesize, predict, and share with others. We share our ideas, opinions, expectations, and build on what others say to shape our own opinions. We use accountable talk to discuss important ideas and through this students help and shape one another's thoughts. While sharing ideas we gain new perspectives and students learn.

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Even in science, literacy plays as the building block to understanding concepts and ideologies. Oral and written language helps to foster the different cultures and that come with science culture. It is important to foster the joy in reading so that we can motivate students to engage and relate to the various topics. Collaboration to create a shared learning space is a place where students feel heard and supported through their journey of learning.

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#6. [Monte/Pizzarello] -- Having a strong literacy foundation is at the heart of student achievement and therefore must be part of the solution to achieving equity in our schools. Literacy is rooted in academic success, informed decision-making, improved self-esteem, personal empowerment, greater economic opportunities, and active participation in a variety of communities. Ultimately, it is the gateway to lifelong learning. Without equity in literacy, achievement gaps will persist and too many students will not reap literacy’s innumerable benefits. As educators, we need to ensure that all students learn the reading and writing skills they need to succeed in school. School achievement is an important gateway to achievement and success in life. Learning to read and write is the cornerstone of all school learning and the key to that achievement.

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#6. [Monte/Pizzarello] -- Having a strong literacy foundation is at the heart of student achievement and therefore must be part of the solution to achieving equity in our schools. Literacy is rooted in academic success, informed decision-making, improved self-esteem, personal empowerment, greater economic opportunities, and active participation in a variety of communities. Ultimately, it is the gateway to lifelong learning. Without equity in literacy, achievement gaps will persist and too many students will not reap literacy’s innumerable benefits. As educators, we need to ensure that all students learn the reading and writing skills they need to succeed in school. School achievement is an important gateway to achievement and success in life. Learning to read and write is the cornerstone of all school learning and the key to that achievement.

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"Historically, literacy was the root of all education including learning in the academic discipline of areas mathematics, science, and history."

"In other words in reading and writing they still practice joy and cultivate love."

We want our students to love what they are learning and learn about themselves in the process.

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Quote from the reading - "A tradition among Black people involved the cultivation of reading, writing, and oral literacies together, layered upon their contextual readings of the world. I found that the literary pursuits in societies involved reading, writing, and debating on popular topics of the time..."

To us, this means that looking at literacry as an all emcompasing activity that involves not just the skill of reading, a student will be more successful in learning. When you incorporate real-world topics that they understand and care about a student will be more successful at understaning the reading at hand. This is important because it keeps the students engaged and invested in their own education.

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J. McCauley, K. Mcleer, K.Johnson, and C. Stathakos

Students incorporate the identity of their culture in our day to day lessons when we discuss ancient civilizations. We help provide this experience to students by discussing their identities through contextual readings which provide a basis for students to interconnect their culture, with an ancient one. Furthermore, through discussing each of their cultures, in a class wide setting all students become more aware of the cultures and identities that surround them in a public school. This also gives students a sense of ownership with their culture as they become empowered by speaking about their own heritage along with the ethnicities of those that surround them

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"I found that the literary pursuits in societies involved reading, writing, and debating on popular topics of the time, and offered lectures on the topics they read and write about." (McHenry 2002)

This sentence from the text connects to three of the four hallmarks of advanced literacies -- reading, writing, and speaking.  It is important for students to learn in a variety of ways.

In addition, the quote above refers to the importance of students understanding society and how things happening around them relate to topics discussed in school. It is vital for students to make connections (Text-to-World) and refer back to their own experiences.

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Literacy was tied to joy, love and aesthetic fulfillment

Instead of focusing on rote memory and test scores, literacy practice should both improve the hearts and minds of all students  "I found that even within social and political tumult, Black people still engaged in literacy practices to both improve their hearts as well as their aesthetic sensibility toward education"

To us this means that even through all of the hardships and suffering people endure throughout their lifetimes, it is still possible to spread joy through literacy and the arts.  When students are able to make a connection to literacy and truly engage and relate  it is possible that it can bring out joy and cultivate love when sharing their own personal experiences and struggles that they have encountered throughout their lives so far.

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-Cusick, Walters, DeLiso, Carcione, Kim, Shan, Cartagena, Russo, Jiang.

"Members of literacy societies did not limit their reading and writing to one particular genre, author, or form of text." Students learn better and become more engaged when the material is personalized or relatable. When we include different and diverse literacy genres and texts, this allows for all of our culturally diverse students to feel a sense of welcoming or something they can relate to. Not limiting reading or writing to a specific genre or author allows all of our students to find a topic that they are interested in. This is important because it allows them to relate to their own cultures and backgrounds, as well as broaden their horizons and learn about others, too.

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Students build knowledge through collaborative work by including their own thoughts, ideologies and cultures. Students have the ability to voice their ideas and opinions in a safe and comfortable environment when collaborating. Collaboration is important because it assists students in building knowledge from different perspectives and taking initiative in their own learning.

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Read pages 32-35:

Directions: In ONE post….

Say: Choose a sentence from one lesson that connects or differs from the work you are doing around advanced literacies.

Mean: What does this mean in your own words?

Matter: Why is this important?