Belarmino, Elmer P.

HD14 TTHS/9:00-10:00pm Profed08

Building and Enhancing New Literacies across the

Curriculum

Introduction

As a future educator, Building and Enhancing is always part of my job, building new ideas and strategy
how to be an effective teacher, and enhancing some of my strength in teaching for me able to progress
and improve my teaching skills. Literacy is one of the key of being an efficient and effective teacher to
your students. Because this one of the foundation of teaching, and that is learning. Being literate is a key
for you to explain and introduced new learning to your student.

Literacy across the curriculum

 Literacy across the curriculum means that the students are learning literary skills while learning
other content areas like math, science, social studies, arts and music.
 It requires children and young people to have skills which enable them to interpret and
compose text across different discipline.
 Literacy present those aspects of the language and literacy strands of the English curriculum
that should also be applied in all other learning areas.
 It demands of each learning area ensure that students ‘literacy development is strengthened so
that it supports subject-based learning.

Teaching Literacy across the curriculum: The Vocabulary Connection

 Every teacher of any subject is a literacy teacher.

WHY?
 Because every time the teacher ask the student to open their textbooks. The teacher is tend to
ask if the student understand what he/she already reed.
 Using vocabulary, the student is enhancing his/her skill to comprehend and able to understand a
text in order to come up with their own ideas and execute tasks.
 While there are many other comprehension strategies. It is still vocabulary is the foundation for
all understanding.
 John Dewey said that, vocabulary is critically important because a word is an instrument for
thinking about the meaning which it expresses.
Being Literate is also building schema

Schema – Background Knowledge

To be an effective teacher, building up and storing knowledge is a must, for you to have a resources of
knowledge and ideas that you will give to your students.

Facts that a teacher possessed while teaching vocabulary

 Know your students

 The nature of the environment you decided to teach on
 The instructional purposes and teaching each of those words
 The strategy that you will employ for teaching them vocabulary