Thinking Is Literacy, Literacy Thinking.

ABSTRACT : Recognizing the profound relationship between thinking and language, the authors have developed the traditional Paideia seminar into a literacy cycle of instruction that involves students in reading, speaking, listening, writing, and thinking. As staff members of the National Paideia Center, they have observed that learning to think requires frequent, deliberate practice. This article provides examples of literacy cycle seminars providing such practice in the content areas of English, mathematics, and history.

Endnotes 1 For more information about the National Paideia Center, visit www.paideia.org. 2 The poem was reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.