Literacy Principles: What We Know About Teaching English Language Arts

Principles Broadened Definitions &

Descriptions in 21st Century

Process Matters!!!!

Power of Peers, Collabortion, & Learning as Social Activity

Meeting Needs of Individual Students Paramount

Energizing Experiences Generate Literacy

Literature Reflects and Expands Life

Language, Life, & G.U.M. Have an Interactive Connection

Genuine Inquiry Serves to Question & Learn

Technology/Technologies and the 21st Century

Implications for Classrooms

What have you seen? Think of the best literacy lesson you’ve seen as

an administrator…

By yourself, consider…. What was great about it? How does this lesson address some of the principles

we just discussed?

With others at your table: Share what you considered above As a group, come up with the commonalities of

these lessons. Post what you decided on on your group wiki

page