The Framework of Literacy Instruction is a guide of how to choose text and instructional strategies which can support learners in a literacy environment. Effective readers are dependent upon effective literacy programs Teachers should assess their learners and establish a program which speaks to the students interests, identities, concerns, and strengths/weaknesses. Students should be given an environment which is conducive to learning how to effectively read and write. Students should be given the opportunity to connect with the text through cultural identity, interest, and critical analysis

1. Fostering Interest in Literacy
Pre-K – 3rd Grade
Using the Framework of Literacy Perspective

2. Why use The Framework of Literacy for an Effective Literacy Program?
• Students relate what they know to what they are learning
• Students create their own knowledge
• Motivated students are more successful
• Culturally responsive learning empowers students
• Authentic literacy activities increase student learning
• Students use literacy to challenge injustices and inequities
• Enforces students independence of interpretation
• enforces strategic reading and writing

3. Interactive Perspective
Cultivate your learners through differentiation.
• Use a variety of informal and formal assessments
to determine areas of strength and need in
literacy development.
•Determine texts of the appropriate types and levels
of difficulty to meet literacy goals and objectives for
students.
•Use instructional methods that address the
cognitive and affective needs of students and the
demands of the particular text.

4. Informal and Formal Assessments
• Mini conferences can be used to ask students what subjects interest them the
most.
• Lexile measurement assessments can determine students’ reading levels
• Assess your students’ literacy strengths and weaknesses
• Determine your students’ vocabulary levels.
• The more you are aware of your students’ reading profile the better you will
be able to create an effective literacy program.

5. Which text is the best?
• Allow your assessment to drive your
choice!
• Choose text which will interest
students.
• Text should be challenging as to
engage students, but not so difficult
it will frustrate independent reading
• Text should enable you to meet your
reading objectives
How should I instruct?
• Include the components of literacy
development: Alphabetic coding,
Fluency, vocabulary, comprehension
• Use prewriting strategies to access
prior knowledge
• Word walls create a vocabulary
visual
• Think-alouds teach students how to
direct and monitor their reading
• Discussions increase interest and
aid comprehension

6. Critical Perspective
Judging, evaluating, and thinking critically
about text

7. • Find out about ideas, issues, and
problems that matter to students.
• Understand learners as unique
individuals.
• Select texts that provide
opportunities for students to judge,
evaluate, and think critically.
• Foster a critical stance by teaching
students how to judge, evaluate,
and think critically about texts.

8. How Can I have my students judge, evaluate, and critically
think?
• Choose text which promote issues students are familiar with and
can empathize.
• Implement strategies to teach students to question the author’s
purpose and choices.
• Promote discourse through questioning “What would they do if
they were the character?” “How can changing an aspect of the
story change our feelings towards the story?”
• Share difference of opinions

9. Reading, reacting, and responding to text in a variety of meaningful ways
Response Perspectives
Reading, reacting, and responding to text in a variety of
meaningful ways

10. How can my students create a personal connection?
Identifying with the text
Instruction strategies
• Choose text with similar cultural
experiences of students.
• Grand conversations explore big
ideas
• Text should create emotional
responses. Choose text which
enable students to explore different
emotions.
• Journal entries allow students to
make text to self observations
• Have text which present realistic
issues
• Open-mind portraits enable
students to think deeper about
characters, themes, and viewpoints

11. Conclusion:
• The Framework of Literacy Instruction is a guide of how to choose text and
instructional strategies which can support learners in a literacy environment.
• Effective readers are dependent upon effective literacy programs
• Teachers should assess their learners and establish a program which speaks to the
students interests, identities, concerns, and strengths/weaknesses.
• Students should be given an environment which is conducive to learning how to
effectively read and write.
• Students should be given the opportunity to connect with the text through cultural
identity, interest, and critical analysis