Six Key Principles: Bridging Students' Career Dreams and Literacy Standards. (19th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Albro, Jennifer; Turner, Jennifer D.
• Is Part Of: Reading teacher. Volume 73:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 161
• Page End: 172
• Publication Date: 2019-05-19
• Subjects: Instructional strategies, teaching strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Strategies, methods, and materials -- Listening strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Reading strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Writing strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Interest < Motivation/engagement -- Digital/media literacies -- New literacies < Digital/media literacies -- Digital/media literacies -- Instructional strategies; methods and materials -- Language learners -- 2‐Childhood -- 3‐Early adolescence; Reading (Elementary) -- Periodicals; Reading -- Periodicals; Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Periodicals; 372.405
• DOI: 10.1002/trtr.1823
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-0561

Abstract

Abstract: College and career readiness has become a top priority for elementary schools. Skills‐focused approaches often are the sole method of preparing students for their postsecondary futures, which can overshadow the identities that students bring to the classroom. In contrast, the authors adopted an identity‐centered approach to literacy instruction using students' career dreams as a focal point by implementing a standards‐aligned career exploration unit for students in grades 3–6. The authors share the six multimodal instructional principles that they generated to support upper elementary students' literacy skill development while focusing on their career aspirations and identities.