Creating a Pop Culture Literacy Workstation for Gr. 2 and 3

[Julie Johnson]

I'm a Special Education Resource Teacher in Ontario Canada.

I was inspired this summer after reading this Ministry of Ed booklet “Me Read? No Way: A Practical Guide to Improving Boy’s Literacy”.

This booklet recommends using pop culture, multi-media, art & music
to engage reluctant readers (especially boys)—to which I thought, why
not put all of that on a website? Perhaps as an all in one,
paperless, easy to access literacy workstation for the regular
classroom?

So I created my ‘Pop Lit’ literacy workstation/website for my Gr. 2 and 3
teachers to try this coming school year.  Check out http://www.poplit.net/

While it targets low/disengaged students (the vast majority of whom are
boys), it is also meant for all students, male and female. It can be
used as a literacy workstation—or as a whole class lesson on the
Smartboard or via the laptop cart.

For more info check out my blog site where I discuss it in more detail: http://bit.ly/c8diiy
 
I thought you might find this interesting? I'm interested in any feedback!

Julie Johnson
Ontario, Canada
PS I'm also on Twitter at @JulieeJohnsonn