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Literacy in Lockdown: Learning and Teaching During COVID‐19 School Closures
Author(s) -
Chamberlain Liz,
Lacina Jan,
Bintz William P.,
Jimerson Jo Beth,
Payne Kim,
Zingale Remy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1961
Subject(s) - globe , literacy , mathematics education , covid-19 , psychology , task (project management) , pedagogy , diversity (politics) , sociology , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , management , neuroscience , anthropology , economics
Across the globe, students have been away from schools and their teachers, but literacy learning has continued. In many countries, students’ literacy proficiency is often measured via high‐stakes assessment tests. However, such tests do not make visible students’ literacy lives away from formal learning settings, so students are positioned as task responders, rather than as agentive readers and writers. The authors explore the fluidity and diversity of literacy events and practices for students and their teachers observed during the recent period of COVID‐19 lockdown restrictions.

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