Tompkins Chapter 10/New Lit Project

•How do teachers support reading skill and strategy development using a basal reading program?
I wanted to answer this question because I was curious about the reading because before now I did not know what a basal reading program was. Basal readers are a type of commercial reading program that has almost always been a part of literacy. Research shows that less control is better but there is a need to include less words, but then the words become more unique. Special characteristics that are new to the format of a text, features now include more in depth plots and stronger characters in a story. Also the predictability of a story has become easier and that is not necessarily a bad thing. Here, we want the students to succeed when it comes to literacy and giving them the stepping stones to figure out how to comprehend a story from start to finish is great. The main goal is to allow students to be successful by giving them the right components and tools. The components of basal reading programs was fairly simple and seems like something any teacher can consider and also it seems like it could really help out ELLs, which is a bonus in the program! I think the most important idea in all this is the management plan because if you know what you want to target with your students then it will help in making them successful.
My new literacies project is one where I will create a scrapblog encompassing emotional literacy. I was extremely interested to explore how my future students could use this tool. I feel as if there is no wrong way to approach this project and that it can be used be students of all ages! There are really no limitations to scrapblogs and I think that is what I like most about them. Using new programs/technologies is never very easy but I find that sometimes I get disappointed after I find out a better way to do something after I have already done it. I am hoping that does not happen in this case!