PLN

Penn Literacy Network Framework for Teaching and Learning

“What matters, in our age, is not just that people read for information, or for amusement, or for whatever else the television screen and computer terminal can alternatively provide. It is that they read for wisdom, for depth, for a conscious acquaintance with the values and judgments of great thinkers thinking greatly. The tragedy of illiteracy – and the even greater waste of alliteracy, involving those who know how to read but don’t – is that it abandons the accumulated wisdom of the ages. It places fine writing in the hands of fewer and fewer interpreters, whose translations and commentaries become progressively oversimplified – and whose audience, increasingly unable to think for itself, grows more and more susceptible to the manipulations of the elite. Are we headed, then, backwards into the pre-print attitudes of the Middle Ages, when the literate few ruled the illiterate many? Our sense of democracy should rise in rebellion at such a notion. “ ~Rushworth Kidder . .  .  . 4 Lenses of Learning
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 * **Meaning-Centered**
 * **Social**
 * **Language-based**
 * **Human**

Collins' Writing Program

= TYPE ONE: CAPTURE IDEAS = Type One writing gets ideas on paper — it's brainstorming. Type One is timed and requires a minimum number of items or lines to be generated. Questions and/or guesses are permitted.
 * One draft
 * Outcomes are evaluated with a check (√) or minus (-)

= TYPE TWO: RESPOND CORRECTLY = Type Two writing shows that the writer knows something about a topic or has thought about the topic. It is a correct answer to a specific question.
 * One draft
 * Graded as a quiz

= TYPE THREE: EDIT FOR FOCUS CORRECTION AREAS = Type Three writing has substantive content and meets up to three specific standards called Focus Correction AreasSM (FCAs). Revision and editing are done on the original.
 * One draft (saved)
 * Read out loud and reviewed to see if the draft completes the assignment, is easy to read, and meets standards set for the focus correction areas.

= **TYPE FOUR: EDIT FOR FOCUS CORRECTION AREAS = Type Four writing is Type Three writing that is read aloud by someone else.
 * Two drafts (saved)
 * Writing is critiqued by a peer and revised by the author

= TYPE FIVE: PUBLISH = Type Five writing is error free and of publishable quality.
 * Multiple drafts (saved)
 * Published work