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Literature Literacy Portfolio
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Portfolio artifact list and explanations for inclusion
Definitions
Principled Procedures
Important Person
Book File
File outside this file
Links:
Belief assumptions Goals or Outcomes and
Rationale
Literacy Essay Curriculum Documents
Book Presentation Independent Project
Standards, Outcomes, Notes
Activity, Assessment File outside this file
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Portfolio Outline or Summary

Artifact Annotation Belief Principled Reason for inclusion

Procedure

1. Definition(s) of children's literature,

literature, literacy...

2. Belief or assumption statements

related to literature and how to facilitate
students' literacy and desire to include
quality literature in their life. (what we
believe or assume for all (All children
should learn to read.)

3. Principled procedures (decision

making guides ) for facilitating literature
learning and enjoyment.

4. Goals or outcomes , and rationale for

classroom literature to benefit students.
(what students will know and why it's
important)

5. Literacy essay on what literacy is,

how children become literate in storying,
and how teachers facilitate literacy.
(literacy, learning theory - students'
transactions and responses... )

6. Curriculum document that describes

activities to use and how to use them to
facilitate students' transactions with
literature so as to focus on critical
analysis, appreciation, and self-
assessment.

7. Important Person - author

investigation notes. Interesting aspects
of their lives, works, and suggestions on
how to use it with students.

8. Book file -

9. Independent Project is to supplement

many of the ideas that were included in
the class. My hopes are to go well
beyond course requirements and look
deeper into the topics.

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Definitions

Children’s Literature

Literature

Literacy

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Beliefs Assumptions
1. Children’s literature is essential for the development of an
educated citizenry. Therefore, literature must be included in
the planned, enacted, and experienced curriculum.
2. Children’s literature has undergone significant changes over the
years and is still evolving with significant changes happening
now and unimaginable changes in the not too distant future.
3. There are many sources to help locate children's books, authors,
activities, literature selection aids, and literature review
sources.
4. Research related to children's literature is helpful to teachers.
5. There are multiple forms of literature that can be used to teach
literacy in the classroom.
6. Instructional techniques to achieve success must include: a
variety of channels of communication, integration with all
aspects of the students' lives and learning, representations
from a variety of genre, and local and global cultures. Studied
in a manner that allows students to have significant
intellectual and emotional transactions with this variety of
literature in a manner that develops their self-efficacy and
appreciation of literature.
7. It’s important for students to understand the human side of
artists, authors, composers, poets, producers, actors,
actresses, musicians, playwrights, and illustrators of children's
literature.
8. Students’ can learn to appreciate literature and different literary
genre.
9. Students can understand and critically analyze children's
literature and its literary elements.
10. Assessment helps us understand how to help students
understand, use, and enjoy literature.
11. Evaluation is personal and should be each individuals
responsibility
12. Literacy is more than understanding and having skill in
reading, writing, speaking, listening, and creating and
interpreting graphic representations.
13. Literature is ...
14. Literacy is ...

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Principled Procedures
• Strive to establish a literary community where children
participate in the ongoing literary life of the classroom/school where
they come to value literary works and begin to support one another
in developing attitudes and strategies required as lifelong learners,
and where we as teachers model and demonstrate the kinds of
literary activities that sustain literary communities.

• Encourage each child’s independent journey toward

appreciation of literary works by providing activities that are
satisfying, supportive, and enriching for each child to learn
strategies to be successful in understanding all varieties of literary
works.

• Group and regroup children for different literary events so

that their needs and interests can be meet in a variety of
teaching/learning situations, enabling them to move forward in their
development gaining confidence and competence and eventually
desiring to share their experiences and creations with one another.

• Immerse children in a world of literary works through

meaningful activities-listening, viewing, discussing, exploring,
analyzing, experimenting, reading, rereading, and creating, where
students reflect on different literary works in a literary community.

• Use children’s knowledge and interests to encourage them

to create a variety of literary works, including writings, videos, art,
dance, creative movement, drama, theater, music, television
programs, radio programs, and Internet materials.

• Connect different literary works to each other so that the

process of literary development is strengthened, and children can
recognize that the processes of communication in different literary
works has similarities, differences, and can be used separately or
together to create a strong message.

• Deepen and extend the children’s personal responses to

literary works by encouraging them to make life connections in
order to build critical thinking and appreciate understanding, as well
as extend their knowledge of how different literary pieces work
within and across cultures

• Teachers need to organize and manage comprehensive

literacy programs, including literacy events across the curriculum,
with opportunities for literacy development as individuals, as part of
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a small group, and as part of the community as a whole.

• Schools need curriculum teams of teachers to design and

implement literary programs that support each child’s development
over the years. Programs that support teachers to monitor, track,
assess, and reflect upon the children’s literary progress in order to
develop teaching and learning strategies that will help the child
grow. Teams that create and share literary works and conduct
classroom inquires, in order to modify, extend, and revise methods
of assisting learners.

• Communicate and co-operate with parents throughout the

school year about their children’s literacy development, accepting
their concerns, sharing with them significant observations and data,
and valuing their support at home and at school in building lifelong
learner.

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Goals, Outcomes and rationale for classroom literature to

benefit students.

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Literacy Essay

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Curriculum Documents

Beliefs, Assumptions,

Goals, Outcomes,

Principled Procedures

Samples

Important person
Book presentation

Standards, Outcomes, Activity, Assessment thread

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Poet, author, artist, illustrator, musician, activity

Activity

Rationale

Outcomes

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Book presentation

Allows students to develop an appreciation of quality literary works within children's

literature. The transaction and analysis of the literary piece helps build an appreciation for
quality literature and the author's accomplishment. Ideas presented will describe elements
of quality literature within a particular genre and relate how the chosen piece of literature
compares to the quality standard. This in turn may motivate students to find other pieces
of quality literature, understand literature deeper, communicate what and how different
elements make literature more powerful and enjoyable, and deepen their appreciation and
positive attitudes toward literature and the telling of stories.

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Independent project

The independent project is defined as artifact(s) that a student or small group of students
create independent of class activities. It is an opportunity to update current curriculum or
pedagogy by incorporating new ideas or to investigate a topic or idea that has been put
off till a later date. The purpose for the independent project with respects to evaluation is
for the students to demonstrate their personal abilities to incorporate beliefs and
principled procedures into their professional practices.

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