Literacy Alliance
The Literacy Alliance is made up of district teams involved in an ongoing discussion of our belief systems about writing and how those beliefs impact the instruction, assessment, scoring, culture, and context of writing. Dr. Andrea Fishman, of the Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project is facilitating these discussions.
Literacy Networking
The Literacy Network is a forum for discussion of issues related to literacy instruction and assessment. It is open to literacy stakeholders from all districts – literacy coaches, reading specialists, literacy coordinators/supervisors, regular and special educators.
Literacy Networking Meetings
- September 21, 2009 12-3pm
- September 21, 2009 12-3pm
- October 19, 2009 12-3pm
- November 23, 2009 12-3pm
- January 11, 2010 12-3pm
- February 22, 2010 12-3pm
- March 22, 2010 12-3pm
Reading Apprenticeship
Reading Apprenticeship is an approach to reading instruction that helps young people develop the knowledge, strategies, and dispositions they need to become more powerful readers. It is at heart a partnership of expertise, drawing on what teachers know and do as discipline-based readers, and on adolescents’ unique and often underestimated strengths as learners. Reading Apprenticeship helps students become better readers by:
- engaging students in more reading—for recreation as well as for subject-area learning and self-challenge;
- making the teacher’s discipline-based reading processes and knowledge visible to students;
- making students’ reading processes, motivations, strategies, knowledge, and understandings visible to the teacher and to one another;
- helping students gain insight into their own reading processes; and
- helping them develop a repertoire of problem-solving strategies for overcoming obstacles and deepening comprehension of texts from various academic disciplines.
Consultation, training, and workshops in these and other literacy-related areas are offered at no charge to Chester County districts.
For more information, please contact Janine Presloid or 484-237-5329.
Janine Presloid Bio
- B.A. in Elementary and Early Childhood Education from Millersville University
- M.A. in Reading Education from West Chester University
- M.A. in Elementary Education from Millersville University
- Reading Specialist Certification K-12
- Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education Certification
- Reading Apprenticeship Facilitator
- 15 years of teaching experience, including:
- college and continuing education
- literacy coaching
- secondary
- elementary
- preschool
