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Explore Module

The Explore Reading as an Act of Resistance badge verifies your completion of one hour of professional learning aimed at gathering student primary source analysis.

Through this module, you will explore the essential question: "How is teaching reading an act of resistance?" through listening to historian, Jarvis Givens' explanation of fugitive pedagogy and a Zoom In Inquiry learning routine to closely examine Library of Congress primary sources.

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Let's begin by remembering how we learned to read. Which (if any) of these images remind you of learning to read? Please select all that apply. *

Nursing student wearing a starched white uniform, seated in a rocking chair, reading, 1900

Daughter of Thomas E. Askew, head-and-shoulders portrait, seated, right hand on cheek, with open book, 1899

Negro Mother Teaching Children Numbers and Alphabet in Home of Sharecropper, 1939

Negro soldier reading to boys who can't read. Camp Gordon, Ga., 1917

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Looking at these images made me think about ...

Even with continuous growth in curriculum materials, teaching methods, and reading interventions, generally reading achievement among students in the United States has not improved in the last 20 years. From your experiences and context, what prevents ALL students from learning to read?
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Poverty

Inexperienced teachers

Ineffective curriculum

Distraction of social media

Parents who can't help with reading

Children who don't like to read

Some children have a harder time learning to read than others

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