Literacy in Lockdown: Learning and Teaching During COVID‐19 School Closures. (22nd November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chamberlain, Liz; Lacina, Jan; Bintz, William P.; Jimerson, Jo Beth; Payne, Kim; Zingale, Remy
• Is Part Of: Reading teacher. Volume 74:Number 3(2020)
• Page Start: 243
• Page End: 253
• Publication Date: 2020-11-22
• Subjects: Audience < Writing -- Children's literature -- Content literacy -- Graduate education -- graduate programs < Teacher education -- professional development -- Home–school connections < Family literacy -- Methodological perspectives -- Motivation/engagement -- Modes < Writing -- New literacies < Digital/media literacies -- Text types -- text features < Content literacy -- Writing -- 1‐Early childhood -- 2‐Childhood; Reading (Elementary) -- Periodicals; Reading -- Periodicals; Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Periodicals; 372.405
• DOI: 10.1002/trtr.1961
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-0561

Abstract

Abstract: Across the globe, students have been away from schools and their teachers, but literacy learning has continued. In many countries, students' literacy proficiency is often measured via high‐stakes assessment tests. However, such tests do not make visible students' literacy lives away from formal learning settings, so students are positioned as task responders, rather than as agentive readers and writers. The authors explore the fluidity and diversity of literacy events and practices for students and their teachers observed during the recent period of COVID‐19 lockdown restrictions.