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 * Connection to New Literacies**

The areas of “new literacy” that I focused on were that of collaboration and participatory learning. According to the NCTE’s 21st Century Literacies Framework, students who participate in “new literacies” engage in collaboration and are able to give feedback in a way that positively impacts their work. (2010, NCTE). I decided to try to give students a bit more agency in the process of choosing and critiquing one another in the process of trying to improve their fluency.


 * How People Learn**

My hope in doing this project was to provide a learner-centered assessment. The first task was to create an assessment that was an authentic way in which to get students to improve upon a skill (CBASSE, 1999). Additionally, I also hoped to make the activity learner-centered by providing poetry that would appeal to students and honor their voices. Students were able to choose from poems that represented a wide variety of cultures and that were kid-friendly and accessible as well. According to the article //How People Learn---Brain, Mind, Experience and School//, doing this would activate schema and facilitate engagement by tapping into “what each student knows, cares about, is able to do.” (CBASSE, 1999, p. 124)