Literacy+Strategies

credit: Guillermo Esteves

Wiki on Literacy and Learning
Michelle Young an English teacher at our school and a member of the RAD Team has created a wiki about Literacy and Learning to help us build literary skills in our classrooms. The wiki is designed to be a resource for teachers to provide helpful links to literacy initiatives in our district, school, and educational community. It includes **instructional strategies** and **black line masters** to try out and she encourages staff to share about our successes and ideas. https://literacy-and-learning.wikispaces.com/

Beyond Cut-and-Paste
Jaime McKenzie writes and lectures about education and technology and publishes a online newsletter called [|From Now On] The article challenges us to provide our students "questions of import" that prevent them from doing cut-and-paste research.

Beyond Cut-and-Paste: Engaging Students in Wrestling with Questions of Import
By Jamie McKenzie, [|©2008], all rights reserved. http://fno.org/sept08/cut.html

Information Literacy Skills:
The Information Literacy Skills PDF from Manitoba and IntegrationStation have countless resources on how to teach students to use information.
 * http://www.retsd.mb.ca/site/staff/staffmain.html

Excerpt from the website:**

National award winner of The Canadian Association for School Libraries' Angela Thacker Memorial Award
Information literacy is the foundation of lifelong learning.This continuum was created to ensure that the students of RETSD acquire the skills necessary for lifelong learning and "to ensure students and staff are effective users of ideas and information" (Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning). When used in conjunction with “The Integration Station”, it provides the basis for effective library programming. [|Download the interactive pdf document] (6.1MB). Not sure how to navigate this resource? [|View the online tutorial] (Flash 5 or newer).

Information Literacy
The IntegrationStation is a website providing support for teachers integrating technology skills into the information literacy process. The different steps involved in the information literacy process are explained as well as how technology can be integrated to facilitate each step of the process. Downloadable worksheets are available as well as links to other valuable resources. [|Go there now!]