When I signed up for this class, I thought that it would be a class that told me how important it is that our students know how to read and write within the specific discipline. Well, within the first week of being in this class I already learned so much of how literacy is so much more than knowing how to read and write. Literacy is about interpretation and the ability to communicate and understand a variety of texts that are everywhere around us.
At first, I had no idea how I was going to incorporate literacy within FACS education without making it obvious. Now I know that incorporating literacy into my curriculum can be as simple as differentiating my instruction and having the students write a response to the activity. Another example is teaching the students the proper vocabulary that is needed to better understand a newly introduced topic. I already made it goal for myself to use differentiated teaching strategies within my classroom because I want each one of my students to understand the information. We all learn in different ways because of our multiple intelligences which makes us unique.
