Group Literacy Invitation: Bullying

The topic of my groups literacy invitation is bullying. Often times bullying is looked over as kids just being kids, but reality is that bullying gets more serious and produces bigger results as the years pass. "Almost 30% of youth in the United States (or over 5.7 million) are estimated to be involved in bullying as either a bully, a target of bullying, or both. In a recent national survey of students in grades 6-10, 13% reported bullying others, 11% reported being the target of bullies, and another 6% said that they bullied others and were bullied themselves." (National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center) Too often you hear of students committing suicide due to some form of bullying. It is up to educators to monitor their students and make sure that they know bullying is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Doing this literacy invitation not only will allow students to take a deeper look into bullying, but at the same time it will invite them into literacy based around the topic. I look forward to this invitation, I know a lesson like this will one day come in handy in my future classroom.