AVReading

--> Making the Invisible, Visible One of the mystifying aspects of school for some students is the “unwritten” and largely “unspoken” code of education.  For many of us, we assume that students know the language or protocol of school.  It comes out in a myriad of small choices throughout the day.  Knowing when blurting out is okay versus formally raising your hand.  Knowing how-- or when-- to just think aloud and free associate thoughts.  Knowing how-- or when-- to re-state a teacher’s ideas or how to expand and develop ideas.  This code is largely socialized into some students, but we can’t assume that everyone has had that same experience.  Building academic language is a way of making some of those unwritten codes more visible.  Let’s start with a good definition of academic language. As Jeffrey Zwier writes,  academic language is “the set of words, grammar, and discourse strategies used to describe complex ideas, higher-order thin...