Keeping current with Literacy research is of great importance to help students in their areas of reading comprehension and literacy in general. While thinking about my research paper, I came across Wendy Ewald's Literacy through Photography framework. This framework encourages reading and writing by analyzing photographs. Besides reading and writing, it encourages speaking, as students talk about the photographs they will use, why, what will the focus be, what will be on the frame; they become aware of pictures as a story to tell, not just an image. Pieces of me allowed my student to read and write poems, while getting creative about how they would portray their life story.
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