On page 13, the authors write, "For instance, there are ways that literacy acts as evidence, as display, as threat, and as ritual. Texts can have multiple roles in an activity and literacy can act in different ways for the different participants in a literacy event."
Since I am always trying to connect theoretical information to the practice of teaching I started thinking about how I see each of these roles play out around a shared text in a classroom.
I'm wondering, what are the advantages and disadvantages to literacy acting in these ways? Is the student whose literacy experiences are acting as a "display" really growing? Is the student whose literacy experiences are acting as a "threat" at risk? Do you think there an ideal literary experience for a classroom or is it dependent on the student?
A virtual classroom to extend the thinking and learning from our 2013 Summer Institute.
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