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Literacy Design Collaborative Resources

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Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)

      Making it possible for all students to have college and career ready literacy skills.  Not a program.  Not a random selection of  curriculum  ideas.  It is a literacy framework that makes the Common Core Standards come alive in English Language Arts, Social Studies and Science classrooms.  LDC positions literacy as a foundation to present content through strategies that ensure students are prepared to enter the work force with world class literacy skills.

LDC Teacher Tools:  Relevance, Rigor, and Research

Carnegie Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy. (2010). Time to act:: An agenda for advancing adolescent literacy for college and career success.  Publications on reading and writing in the disciplines.

Applying Webb's Depth of Knowledge by Karin K. Hess

LDC - Technical Guide~~ Developed for project leaders and interested LDC partners, this document describes technical specifications for the LDC Framework.  It is housed at a site aloong with many other valuable resources for schools interested in implementing the Collaborative approach. 

Literacy by Design - Template Tasks~~ "Plug and Play" template tasks are at the heart of the Literacy Design Collaborative.  They take standards from the page into action in the classroom.  This link provides a sample of template tasks that can form the literacy backbone to develop reading and writing skills while learning science, history or literature.  The tasks are another resource found at the New Visions site.

Rethinking Literacy "Voices From the Literacy Design Collaborative" ~~ YouTube video of the Literacy Design Collaborative from the perspective of teachers on the front lines doing the work.  This video showcases Kenton County School District teachers and is presented by the Bill and Melinda GATES Foundation.

FYI...  Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) and the Pennsylvania Common Core State Standards are one of the nine content areas to be addressed through Keystones to Opportunity federal grant dollars.  Those districts selected to receive a portion of the KtO will be preparing to train secondary content area teachers in the LDC framework, a literacy driven instructional approach that directs a laser focus on content by asking students to respond to deep and complex questions leading to authentic student research and dynamic written products.

LDC Tasks on SAS~~  currently there are 73 tasks developed by Pennsylvania secondary educators for grades 6-12 posted on the Standards Aligned System Portal.  Simply go to www.pdesas.org click on the Materials & Resources tab, enter the letters "LDC" into the Keyword Search cell and all 73 tasks, complete with resources, objectives, standards linkages and lesson plans will be accessible.  All tasks were created as part of a statewide project during the 2010/2011 school year.

Resources to Enhance Content, Literacy and Expression

Online Research Tools

  • Easybib – virtual notecards, footnote and parenthetical citations, instructional presentations and tutorials.
  • NoodleTools – notetaking software, accurate bibliography composer, online notecards, guides citations for tricky sources
  • Word doc describing use of citations in LDC -Why Cite



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