1. Literacy Literacy is the ability to use reading and writing for a variety of tasks both in and outside of school (Tompkins, 2010). The goal of literacy instruction is to ensure all students’ achieve their full literacy potential.

3. Getting to Know Literacy Learners It is not what we are teaching, rather who we are teaching (Laureate Education Inc., 2010).

5. Selecting Text Teachers must choose engaging text that appeal to students’ identities; cultural, community, gender, developmental (Laureate Education Inc., 2009).

7. Literacy Perspectives All three perspectives are key components in creating a literate environment (Laureate Education Inc., 2009). Once teachers know their students, they need to determine what they’re going to do with those texts, and for those students to help them become literate learners (Laureate Education Inc., 2009). Interactive Critical Response

8. Interactive Perspective Teaching students how to read and become strategic processors and thinkers (Laureate Education Inc., 2010).

10. Critical Perspective Teaching students to critically examine text. To look at text from a different perspective (Laureate Education Inc., 2009).

12. Response Perspective This perspective gives students the opportunity to experience and respond to text (Laureate Education Inc., 2009).