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= = =**Jackie Melycher's Literacy Now Wiki Page**=

Hello, My name is Jackie Melycher and I am a student studying to be a teacher at Western Connecticut State University. My professor, W. DeLeon, has created this real world Wiki assignment. This Wiki is a challenge to me on so many levels, firstly I am not as technology proficient as my peers, secondly I will be collecting information from all over the web and synthesizing it into this little space. I believe that literacy is connected to past experiences and background. The interpretations I make to texts will never be exactly the same as another individual, and that is the art of literacy. Comprehension, fluency, and porosity seem to be a cycle, strengthen one and the others will improve. This maybe a naive. In fact many of my philosophies maybe naive, but I hope that with this communication tool I gain perspective through interacting with other professionals.

The "Method to the Madness" if you will, will be a division of the Wiki pages into use for Educators and use for Students. The Wiki will be further divided into American Studies (My content area), Balanced Literacy, Early Literacy, Authors of Multicultural Children's Literature, and Comprehensive Literacy.

For Students: Students -- American Studies Students -- Authors of Multicultural Literature Students -- Balanced Literacy Students -- Comprehensive Literacy Students -- Early Literacy

For Teachers: Educator -- Authors of Multicultural Literature Educators -- American Studies Educators -- Balanced Literacy Educators -- Comprehensive Literacy Educators -- Early Literacy