A Synthesis Blogging Whitman

When science meets literacy...
(or something)

Back in September I wrote a post about an interesting little web service called DailyLit. I had just signed up and received the first of 423 installments of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass via email. I spoke of how we could integrate small chunks of text like this into our school’s literacy program... especially with regard to the "eyes past print with voice support" read-aloud strategy. Given that from age 14 to 18, and from AP Physics to PE, we read for different reasons and in different ways. With that in mind, I saw this service as an interesting and free way to add rich sources of text for classroom analysis, or even simply for volume or pleasure. As of today, it is the “pleasure principle” that made me check back in on this web entity.

My Sunday delivery of Leaves of Grass inspired me to write... and in the midst of that, and even more interesting little "Aha" was gained.

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