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Pahl, K. & Rowsell, J ., Literacy and Education, London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 2010. CHAPTER 3: Children’s texts go to school focuses on children’s experience of literacy at home is connected to literacy at school. Every communicative practice done by children is counted as literacy (talk, gestures, drawing, etc.). Briefly, Pahl and Rowsell state that recontextualization , especially from home literacy to school literacy, is not easy at all. It might be interesting if parents can adapt their behavior to support children’s literacy at home. Fortunately, many educators have been trying to connect home literacy and school literacy in order to explore students’ funds of knowledge . Some ways are book bag, storysack, and backpacks program; reading is actually main strategy. Relating to this, ORIM (Opportunities, Recognition, Interaction, Model) framework is introduced by Hannon and Nutbrown. As teachers and parents give ‘opportunities’ to students to connect home-school li...

Pahl, K. & Rowsell, J ., Literacy and Education, London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 2010. CHAPTER 2 Pahl and Rowsell highlight the contents of this section as Multimodal here stands for any communication concept that can be used as literacy sources, such as written (linguistic signs), visual, gestural and tactile (we can see, smell, touch, and feel) concept. Texts as artefacts, Texts we use, Reading path, Materiality of texts, Multimodal literacy. Texts as cultural artefacts: the object has a history (traces of practice), a material presence (does not have to be material, it can be abstract). Every object has a story to tell, Affordances (several things we can do using something, the use of something, optional act we can do with something) and Constraints (everything is related in use) . Multimodality involves the complex interweaving of pictures, sounds, movement, etc. In particular, regarding to the place for multimodality, Pahl and Rowsell stated “We see multimodalit...

Complete the sentences with this, that, these or those! 1.        ________ book here is mine, but ________ one over there is hers. 2.        ________ pens here are his, but ________ over there are theirs. 3.        My kid can’t eat all of ________ ice cream. 4.        A: (on the telephone) Hello? B: Hi, Jack? A: Yes, ________ is Jack speaking. Who is calling? B: Hi, Jack, ________ is Paul. 5.        I found ________ necklace in the bedroom. Is it your mom’s? 6.        ________ fried fish are delicious, Teddy. Would you like to give me the recipe? 7.        I can’t complete ________ articles today. I’ll ask for a help to my sister to work on them tonight. 8.        ________ clothes here was made in China 9.   ...

Choose the correct answer. 1.        Located behind ________ the two lachrymal glands.              a. each eyelid                          c. each eyelid are              b.    is each eyelid                      d. each eyelid which is 2.        Only for a short period of time _________ run at top speed.              a. cheetahs                              c. that a cheetah can              b.    ...

Assalamu'alaikum , everyone. Literacy is quiet popular issue these days. Studies, theories and practices related to this are widely explored. One of my course in the first semester, last year also discussed about this; it is so sad it has to be ended. Interesting cases, interesting process and interesting lecturer, I believe, make everybody love it. The very first thing we discuss about this course is "Why Literacy as a Social Practice?"   Well this post is going to show you about some sources connected to that question; some parts of books or journals are reviewed. Okay it is not really review but a kind of reflection, my reflection, to those sources. I hope it'll help. This topic may be also interesting for you:  Open up My Eyes: My Childood Literacy Practices From the very beginning of the lecture, I have realized that literacy is particularly important. As I came to the class with empty headed; had no idea about what exactly literacy is, what we ...

Time flew, and everything changed. My brothers were sent to Islamic boarding house when they had finished elementary school; and so was I. We did not draw pictures or write stories anymore; because  we had so many things to learn— school courses and dorm courses. This makes me sad, now. I do not think that I have got enough meaningful lessons, honestly. I just did my assignments, I got scores, and then I graduated. Teachers in school gave assignments that I had to always deal with and my dormitory would not care because it had its own rules too. However, I joined many competitions and I have just realized that those competitions were not related to materials or courses that I had been learning in classrooms. The same cases also happened when I was in senior high school. Only, I joined talent-related competition when I was in junior high school—such as story-telling, poem-reading, speech, and role playing—on the contrary, I joined religion-related competitions when I was in sen...

Word ‘ Literacy ’ has been so popular nowadays; used for various programs and activities, especially related to education. The truth that I have just figured out many things about it makes me disappoint myself. But I am so glad at the same time that I have chance to learn and review about these all. Shortly, literacy is not only defined as anything related to reading and writing, but it is also related to any process of learning and communicating (UNESCO, 2003). Everything has its special story, and this story is not essentially only about me; it is also about my family, my environment and people around me. In relation to reading, writing and learning things, I see through my memories that I unintentionally have been finding these kinds of activities around. I am not saying that I have many experiences in reading and writing, I am good at reading and writing, or I have been growing up in a highly literate family. But the fact that literacy practices can be happened in various co...