Reading and viewing involves being a consumer of text. It means learning new things through an encounter with the ideas of others. It means taking your role as audience serious; thinking personally and critically about the messages you interact with.

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What are my takeaways this year from reading and viewing?

How did we use these literacy strands to learn more about the world we live in?

What were some of my favorite reading and viewing experiences?

Speaking and listening are the foundations of human ability to interact with the world around us; we are creator and consumer, together at once. It's no wonder that our first words are one of the most exciting milestones of growing! We learn so much about one another through engaging in dialogue; speaking and listening allows us to connect.

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What are my takeaways this year in sharing in conversation with you this year?

How have I learned to focus more on these strands of literacy in the classroom?

Writing and representing involves being a producer of texts for an audience - sometimes that audience may be very personal and limited and sometimes it may be very public and unlimited. When we are producers of text, we consider the purpose for the text and the audience we have in mind. It provides an outlet for us to be expressive and creative and it provides a window to our thinking.

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What are my takeaways this year in sharing in the creation process with you?

How have I used other texts as models for my own and to help inspire you?

How can we use text creation to connect with others?