Welcome to The Literacy Connection at Buckner Elementary School. This webpage has been developed to bridge the home-school connection in the area of literacy. We hope that the material you find on these pages will assist you in understanding our goals in nurturing your child in all aspects of literacy learning.
What is Literacy?
Literacy encompasses 5 different but intensely connected areas: reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.
What's New?
While some schools may just be getting started with their school year, Buckner Elementary is already in full swing. Teachers and students are collaboratively working to create their classroom communities and establish those all-important routines and rituals that foster learning and support the development of understanding. From kindergarten to fifth grade, students spend time in literacy workshops. As you can imagine, it's much like the workshop one might have in the garage:
Though we are not working on cars or building physical structures during our time, we are creating and extending the building blocks of literacy and sharing our work with others. Our Buckner Bears own the importance of understanding the messages of those texts we read, as well as the power of communicating with others. They read to research and recored to make meaning and someday share it- in their own creative way. Students care about being courteous writers, and work to revise and edit so their message is clear. And literacy extends into the content areas where connections are made and new discoveries occur. At Buckner, from the moment our kids walk in our doors, we strive to set the stage for excellence. We believe in every student and extend the love of literacy to them and to you- our parent partners. May we ALL work to make this year be our best ever, because together we grow.
While some schools may just be getting started with their school year, Buckner Elementary is already in full swing. Teachers and students are collaboratively working to create their classroom communities and establish those all-important routines and rituals that foster learning and support the development of understanding. From kindergarten to fifth grade, students spend time in literacy workshops. As you can imagine, it's much like the workshop one might have in the garage:
- filled with tools (readers, writers, and wordsmiths need)
- time is spent modeling or showing a process one uses to be literate (thinking while reading and writing, studying exemplary writing, making mistakes and revising along the way)
- large blocks of time are allotted for working on the work- making and creating (meaning, growing ideas, informing, offering our opinions, and narrating events that matter to our writers and their audiences)
- guidance is given (talk is encouraged through conferencing with individuals, groups, and whole classes)
- reflection matters (students consider celebrations as well as set goals for future work)
Though we are not working on cars or building physical structures during our time, we are creating and extending the building blocks of literacy and sharing our work with others. Our Buckner Bears own the importance of understanding the messages of those texts we read, as well as the power of communicating with others. They read to research and recored to make meaning and someday share it- in their own creative way. Students care about being courteous writers, and work to revise and edit so their message is clear. And literacy extends into the content areas where connections are made and new discoveries occur. At Buckner, from the moment our kids walk in our doors, we strive to set the stage for excellence. We believe in every student and extend the love of literacy to them and to you- our parent partners. May we ALL work to make this year be our best ever, because together we grow.