Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Connecting Print Literacy with Digital, Media, and Global Competence, K-12, Edition 2

• Revising and expanding the role of all teachers so that they see themselves as classical language and contemporary literacy teachers;
• Separating vocabulary into three distinctive types with distinctive instructional approaches to sustain and extend independent language development;
• Building creative and visual notetaking and sketchnoting strategies;
• Designing media projects for every class level and employing a consistent editing and revision policy for writing assignments;
• Using a formal approach to develop speaking skills through four discussion types to increase civil public discourse;
• Employing direct technical instruction that promotes the use of the human voice and body as a speaking and communication instrument;
• Using Curriculum Mapping to develop formal benchmark assessments for active literacy and new literacy cultivation in every subject and on every level.

Each chapter is focused on a specific strategy and includes practical examples so you can easily implement the ideas, no matter what grade level or subject area you teach.