2. Overview Aliteracy defined Why it occurs Problems with aliteracy Research Purpose Research Significance Actions to take against aliteracy Conclusion
4. Why does Aliteracy Occur? Click to find out more reasons! Reading not encouraged in the classroom. Reading only from a content textbook. Teacher’s own reading habits (Hill, & Beers, 1993).
5. So What’s The Problem? Due to current teaching habits- emphasis on covering content- aliteracy can lead to students becoming disengaged in the classroom, and increases the chance of them falling behind.
7. Do you see a problem now? “Recent estimates by the Carnegie Corporation of New York reveal that close to 50 percent of the incoming ninth-graders in this country’s comprehensive public high schools cannot comprehend the texts that their teachers assign,” (Alvermann, 2004).
8. Research Purpose The goal of this research is to demonstrate that aliteracy can lead to long-term consequences. Career? College?
9. Significance of Study Current and future educators need to realize there is more to teaching than just regurgitating facts. Curbing the aliterate tendencies will ensure greater educational success of a student.
10. How Can This Be Fixed? Teacher’s philosophy on reading Teacher’s reading habits Classroom library Silent reading Click me to see more library examples!
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12. References Hill, M. H., & Beers, G. K. (1993). Teachers as Readers: Survey of Teacher Personal Reading Habits and Literacy Activities in the Classroom. Reading Teacher Survey. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED364836.pdf Newingham, B. (n.d.). Our classroom library. Retrieved from http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/index.htm Reluctant readers: part 1 [Web log message]. (2010, November 16). Retrieved from http://thereadingchild.com/archives/247
