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