CULTURAL LITERACY EVENT
REFLECTIONS, CONNECTIONS, EXTENSIONS
Name: _______________________________
Date: _______________
Cultural Literacy Event: ____________________________________________
Location: ___________________________________ Date: _______________
Placing language arts/literacy in a wider communicative
context allows us as teachers of language and literacy to
‘widen and expand’ our lenses, to expand our understanding
of literacy, and to provide our students with many different
opportunities to develop and represent ideas and messages in a
variety of forms that go beyond oral and written language. . .
Assignment: As you attend your cultural literacy event and reflect upon your
experience, please respond thoughtfully to the following questions from the
stance of a teacher of language and literacy. . .
1. How was literacy reflected and represented in this cultural literacy event?
2. What sign system(s) do you see in this literacy event?
3. If you could invite one person from your cultural literacy event to your
classroom, how would they enhance the literacy teaching/learning in your
classroom?
4. How did this cultural event extend your understanding of literacy / your
definition of literacy?
5. How will it change / impact / influence how you support and teach
language and literacy in your classroom?
6. What types of literacy events will we see in your classroom as a result of
this experience?