Day 2 – Historically and Culturally Responsive Literacy in and Across the Disciplines: Transforming Reading Practice | Thursday May 26 from 3 – 5pm

Fostering a Culture of Reading: Origin Story of the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading
Laura Kates, Education/BEH
Emily Schnee, English
This session will describe why and how an interdisciplinary group of Kingsborough faculty started the Faculty Initiative on Teaching Reading.

Designing and Using Translanguaging Strategies in the Context of College Reading
Ivana Espinet, Education/BEH
This session explores how to understand students’ translanguaging practices and how to use classroom strategies that support the development of students’ bilingual reading identities. This includes the application of students’ lived experiences as bilingual, bicultural people to their understandings and readings of texts.

Teaching reading strategies in Biology classes
Emral Devany, Biology
This session explores how to integrate reading strategies in a General Biology class. Pre-reading, Re-reading, close-reading, and skim-through reading strategies will be discussed as ways to help students develop skills that will help them throughout their college years and beyond.

Identity, Context, Text: Dialogic Practice and the Teaching of Reading
Gregory Bruno, English
It can be difficult to incentivize reading as a meaningful practice for students managing overwhelming schedules. In this session, we examine the relationships between text, reader-identity, and extra-curricular contexts as they relate to designing and implementing a meaningful reading pedagogy.

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