Monday, March 25, 2013

"Popular Culture as a Literacy Tool" by Thomas Newkirk

Inspires students to draw on characters, infinitely expandable, reenactments, pleasure of play, improvisation, sound effects, joint planning with peers, social, active, and sets no limits to students imagination. "One clear feature of media driven writing is the central importance of giving good names to characters" (99). Motivating students to write what they read through spring-boarding of popular culture is another means of getting students to passionately write with expressiveness.

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