Environmental Print: Sign of the Times
Presented by Cynthia Martin
Rochester, NY
My second breakout session of the afternoon was titled Environmental Print: Sign of the Times. Again I struggled with wanting to be selfish and attend The Real Work of a Professional Learning Community presented by Debbie Harbour from Chets Creek Elementary, but once again our committment to blog and our flight to the west coast told me to do differently.
The environmental print session was presented by Cindy Martin from Rochester, New York. She demonstrated many ways to use environmental print as a vehicle to produce better readers and writers. The presenter highlighted ways to use ads, coupons, labels, and packages. She showed us that using free phamplets from area attractions is a great way to create activities for students. We were introduced to a website at http://www.nwt.literacy.ca/, where you can find games that use environmental print. Cindy also shared ways that she uses packages, wrappers, and boxes to teach different language skills. It was a well received session that the participants walked away from with many ideas on how to include the use of environmental print in their classroom instruction.
2 comments:
Dear Debbie,
Thank you for sharing what you learned. I always believed in Environmental Print. Why not? It makes so much sense and is so logical and readily available. I am so happy for you getting to go to the conference and having the opportunity to learn from others. I took real good care of your little princess, Madi-girl, as she is my little baby girl, too. I gave extra hugs, understanding, and conversation to all of my girls whose mama's are gone to Hollywood.
Love,
Dorry
Hi Debbie,
Using Environmental Print makes so much sense, as it is so readily available. The students can identify with it as well. Thank you for writing such an informative post and sharing it with your colleaques and the rest of the world.
Love,
Dorry
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