1. GRDG620 The Nature & Acquisition of Literacy
Cultural Variation and It’s Role in Literacy Acquisition
Dr. Gloria E. Jacobs

2. Agenda Review & Building Warm-up Small Group Discussion
Guided Discussion
Break
Essay Preparation
Next Week and into the future

3. Review & Building Linguistic Variation Surface level difference
Text structure
Syntactic
Morphemic
Orthographic
Graphophonemic
Surface level difference
Does not change meaning
She went to the store.
She goed to the store.
Over generalization  linguistic variation
She goin’ to the store. (past or present)
She be goin’ to the store. (continuous action; always going to the store)
She BIN at the store (she has been at the store for a long time and is still there)
She done gone to the store. (past perfect; action completed)

4. Dialect Study in the Schools
One Example

5. Building
Cultural Variation
Pragmatic system
Changes deep meaning

6. Your Questions
What questions do you continue to have regarding linguistic variation and its implications for literacy acquistion and learning?

7. Warm-up Brainstorm your home literacies from childhood and now.
How were/are they congruent or incongruent with the expectations of schooling?
How have your home literacies changed over time? If your home literacies have changed, what is the relationship of schooling to those changes?

8. Small Group Discussion

9. Guided Discussion (do all)
Create a chart that compares/contrasts Heath, Meier, Gee, Goodman.
According to Heath, what is the relationship of the social practice of the bedtime story to children’s in-school literacy learning?
Heath describes different “ways with words.” How might these differences account for the over- representation of children of color in special education?
Meier makes specific recommendations for things teachers can do. How do these actions build on children’s cultural knowledge?

10. Break

11. Essay Preparation Review the Question Expectations
Small Group Workshop: Use the distributed form and begin identifying the texts that will help you address the various aspects of the essay.

12. Next Week
Sociocultural Perspectives on Literacy Acquisition and Learning
Kucer, Chapter 9
Larson & Marsh Chapter 5
Optional - view APA video podcast posted on the Wiki (20 minutes)
Guided Reflection #2
Bring outline/draft of essay to class for workshopping