U.S. students do poorly on document, technological and quantitative literacy tasks when compared to students in other countries. This workshop will introduce a framework for addressing “literacy to do,” which entails the literacy skills that will help students succeed in school, in the workplace, and in the community as citizens and adults. Teachers need strategies that go beyond literature and textbooks so they can teach students how to read other, non-traditional types of text, communications and documents. The workshop, based on the Redefining Literacy in Grades 7-12 — Strategies for Document, Technological, and Quantitative Literacy resource kit, provides numerous ways to address non-prose skills, which are especially needed in math, science, and electronic media applications. These strategies will help schools increase performance and better prepare this generation of learners for an unknown future in the global arena.

Objectives

• Understand why students need to be literate in accessing and interpreting document, technological and quantitative environments
• Understand what are the literacy skills students need to be successful in school, the workplace and the community
• Learn strategies to use in the classroom to teach non-prose skills

Related Resources

Resource Kits

• Redefining Literacy in Grades 7-12 — Strategies for Document, Technological, and Quantitative Literacy
• Leading with Reading in Grades 7-12

DVD

• Literacy — The Key to Success

White Paper

• What We Know About Adolescent Reading
• Achieving Reading Proficiency for All