The Alignment Of Skills And Practice Via Active Reading Methodology

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How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher training can facilitate this via modelling literacy pedagogy such as active reading strategies based upon authentic texts. This paper will discuss the skills and practice debate, and then illustrate the alignment of the two perspectives by reference to some specific active reading strategies devised around a restaurant menu.

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Brooke, J. M., (2013) “The Alignment Of Skills And Practice Via Active Reading Methodology”, Teaching in Lifelong Learning 4(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.5920/till.2013.425

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Jane M Brooke

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