Starting From Scratch (Jr.): Integrating Code Literacy in the Primary Grades.

In today's multimodal landscape, coding has a space in the elementary literacy curriculum. Coding and literacy have many parallels, which are described in further detail. The author also explains why coding should be integrated into the primary grades and the steps that teachers can take to implemen...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Reading Teacher Vol. 73; no. 6; pp. 805 - 813
Main Author: Delacruz, Stacy
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell May/Jun2020
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Summary:In today's multimodal landscape, coding has a space in the elementary literacy curriculum. Coding and literacy have many parallels, which are described in further detail. The author also explains why coding should be integrated into the primary grades and the steps that teachers can take to implement coding in the literacy curriculum. The free app ScratchJr is used to illustrate how block coding can be integrated into literacy instruction. The author provides an example, embedded throughout, of how code literacy was implemented in a second‐grade classroom, with relation to content area literacy in science.