Eight Principles of Literacy Instruction

Review the eight principles of literacy instruction and analyze the lesson plan you created for the activity presentation. Which principles apply to your lesson? Explicate your rationale by illustrating the principles that relate to key aspect(s) of your lesson.

After analyzing the lesson plan I created for my presentation, I found that the following principles of literacy instruction apply to it:

• 1. Focus on complex, meaningful questions and problems so that students' reading and writing can be in service of genuine inquiry.
• 2. Embed basic skills instruction in the context of more global tasks, such as including reading comprehension and composing skills in introductory reading and writing activities or instruction.
• 4. Model powerful thinking strategies for students.
• 5. Encourage students to use mutliple approaches to academic tasks and have students describe their answers aloud to the class so that all students hear different ways to solve the same problem.

The questions I ask require students to utilize their ability to analyze events, and form their own conclusions about these events. The lesson plan enables students to comprehend readings and reflect in their writings. They have to think critically about the event at hand, and depict their opinion through creative tactics (example: creating a comic). By using these literacy intructions when creating a lesson plan, a teacher will be able to create a lesson and instruct the class in a way that is meaningful for the students.