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Literacy and Holistic Development
William G. Huitt Valdosta State University
Zhang Ruiming Guangzhou University
Brilliant Star Framework
Brilliant Star Framework
• Core elements– Spirituality– Moral Character– Personal Style
Brilliant Star Framework
• Intrapersonal domains– Physical/psychomotor– Awareness/perceiving– Cognition/thinking – Affect/emotion – Conation/volition
Brilliant Star Framework
• Interpersonal domains– Family– Friends– Career– Finances– Sociocultural
Traditional Classroom Instruction
• Focuses mainly on cognitive domain– Reading/language arts– Mathematics– Social studies– Science
Traditional Classroom Instruction
• Academic and intellectual competencies account for only about 1/3 of variance when attempting to explain adult success
Brilliant Star Integrative Reading Project
• Use reading/language arts activities
• Develop social capital
Lesson Summary Development
• Book selection– http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/brilstar/
integrative/reading/index.html
• Lesson summaries developed
• Connected to other academic areas
• Uniqueness is simultaneously addressing academic and holistic objectives
Classroom Usage
• Materials easy to use
• Increased use of children’s literature
Developing Social Capital
• Audio or video recording while reading book
• Used in classroom during reading time
• Middle school service learning activity
Future Activities
• Develop school-wide project leadership team
• Select additional books and write more lesson summaries
• Record students reading their own books
• More systematic implementation
Summary and Conclusions
• Restrictions on classroom activities
• Linking reading/language arts to other content areas well established
• Extending to more holistic objectives
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