How can Creating a Literacy-Rich Environment Support Students’

Confidence in Themselves and Their Learning?

Components of a Literacy Rich Environment

Represents classroom goals
Reinforces prior knowledge
Provides access to education
Builds connections between dimensions of literacy
Flexible to support classroom activities
Encourages focus and participation
Considers diverse needs
Supports student success

What are critical reading and critical literacy?

Critical reading focuses on deliberately uncovering a relationship between the
reader, writer, and subject through analyzing the writer’s use of devices such as
diction, parallel structure, figurative language, and imagery to unearth authorial
intention and consider the subsequent effect on the intended reader’s thoughts
and emotions.
Critical literacy situates a text within political, historical, and social contexts as a
means to name and challenge inequity. Critical literacy also involves readers
recognizing they bring with them certain backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs
that will impact how they transact with a text.

How can Diverse Resources Positively Impact Literacy Differentiation?

Technologies
Choice of Text
Differentiated Planning/Activities