The Hub: A Place For Reading And Writing Pdf

Articles and Research take 4 This section of the OST Hub provides information and materials that will help to introduce new reading/writing activities in your program or help to further develop and enhance your current program. For researchers and policymakers, it provides information that will help to understand the larger issues and help to contextualize language and literacy practices and programs in the OST setting.

This section, Reading & Writing: Articles & Research, is divided into the following resource areas:

General Articles on Reading and Writing in the OST provides background on the historical roots of providing literacy in OST, and the multiple roles that OST staff and programs can play to support literacy development.
Integrating Literacy into Other Activities is a section that provides articles on how to integrate literacy into traditional OST offerings, such as the arts and other enrichment activities.
Teaching Writing in the OST is a section that provides help for one of the most difficult tasks — engaging children and youth in and providing support for writing. Some of the articles focus on gender, such as boys, who are often the most difficult to engage.

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• General Articles on Reading & Writing

Effective Out-of-School Time Reading Programs

Reading instruction does not need to stop with the bell rings. Using out-of-school time can be an effective way to boost academic skills while engaging students outside of the classroom. In this publication, education research lab McREL reviews effective afterschool and summer programs that focus on reading, and identifies the components that make them successful.

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• Integrating Literacy into Other Activities

Bitz, M. (2006). The art of democracy, democracy as art. ASM_op7_fall-1

Hall, G. (2006). Civic Connections. ASM_op7_fall-2

Blackburn, M.V. (2005). Co-constructing space for literacy and identity. ASM, 4_spring-3

Edwards, D. 2005. Doing hair and literacy in an afterschool reading and writing workshop for African-American Adolescent Girls. Afterschool Matters_spring-6