Welcome to the Academic Literacy Project
Make plans now to attend the 2010 Academic Literacy Summit:
Academic Literacy: Writing to Think and Learn in All Content Areas
February 4, 2010
UC Davis ARC
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Sponsored by the UC Davis School of Education and the Yolo County Office of Education, the Academic Literacy Project hopes to serve as a resource for K-12 teachers and administrators, community college and university instructors, and educational researchers on the topic of academic literacy. This project also seeks to understand teachers’ and educational leaders’ current and emerging understandings of academic literacy in practice, especially as they attempt to address the literacy needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Finally, this bridge hopes to serve as a link between these often separate communities.
Photo 1: Teachers attending the Literacy in History Breakout Session at the Academic Literacy Summit discuss places in a text excerpt where they anticipate students would have difficulties. This session was sponsored by the History Project at UC Davis and collaboratively led by Stacy Greer-Crabtree, The History Project, UC Davis; Sarah Taylor, PS 7 Middle School, Sacramento, CA; and Professor Mary Schleppegrell, University of Michigan.
Photo 2: Dr. Ronda Adams, Associate Superintendent of Educational Services, Yolo County Office of Education, engages in a discussion with Sheila White Daniels, Director of Matriculations and Articulation Services, Yuba Community College District. The Academic Literacy Summit provided a venue to establish and promote connections between K-12 schools and districts, community colleges, and universities.
News and Events
Academically Speaking: Labor Day no longer signals the end of summer
Today is Labor Day. As my husband pointed out yesterday, that means today marks the unofficial end of summer. And certainly when we were growing up, that was the case because the arrival of Labor Day always coincided with the first day of school. Gone would be the long days that seemed to stretch on forever filled with whatever suited us.
Academically Speaking: Texting: Literacy or Laziness?
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about text messages. Over the last few years, they have become an everyday part of my world. My husband and I use them to send notes to each other throughout the day. Some times these are brief tidbits of important information that we need the other to know. Other times, we just send notes to say we’re thinking of one another. I sometimes imagine these as the modern day version of the note slipped in the briefcase or lunch box.
EDU 244-Academic Language and Literacies Course Reference List
This list comes from Professor Kerry Enright's EDU 244 class taught Spring 08 for graduate students in the School of Education at UC Davis. Annotations will soon be added about each of these references. This course will again be offered in Spring 09.
Alvermann, D. E., & Reinking, D. (2005). Contemporary qualitative research methodologies and issues in literacy education. Reading Research Quarterly, 40(1), 90-110.
Au, K. H. (1998). Social constructivism and the school literacy learning of students of diverse backgrounds. Journal of Literacy Research, 30(2), 297-319.
Academically Speaking: Blogging for the First Time
Welcome to “Academically Speaking,” the “official” blog of the Academic Literacy Project at UC Davis.
Resources to Share
If you have found a resource particularly useful as you address the academic literacy needs at your site or in your classroom, please send its information to us so that we may post it here.
As lesson plans and resources related to academic literacy are received they will be posted to this site.
