Last week a consultant I know referenced her desire to recruit people for a Literacy Army with one goal in mind: empowering students with literacy skills! Now that’s an army I’m ready to join.
Job description?
- Discuss the functions of language in our daily lives.
- Embed frequent talk time into lessons as a means of thinking and learning.
- Encourage writing as a form of expression, thinking, and coping. Assess less.
- Read aloud to students of all ages!
- Provide quality, diverse text: everything from picture books to poetry, novels to nonfiction, cookbooks to car manuals.
- “Wear your reading love proudly in front of your students every day.” Donalyn Miller
Will you join our brigade?
I’m in!
Woo hoo!
Yes please
You’re in!