Literate Environment Analysis Presentation

1. Literate Environment Analysis
Presentation
By: Demetria Boddie

2. There are four main areas that are needed
to create a literate environment:
• Getting to know the literacy learner
• Selecting Texts
• Literacy Lesson: Interactive
Perspective
• Literacy Lesson: Critical and
Responsive Perspectives
Critical Areas that are needed to create a Literate Environment

3. One method in gaining insight on students is
through reading inventories and non-cognitive
assessments. I found that the “Me Stew” activity
offered educators a fun method to share an interest
and personal identities, as well as gain knowledge of
what matters to their students as individuals
(Laureate Education, n.d.a). This interactive activity
allowed the students to bring into class five items
that fit inside a brown lunch bag that best describe
the students’ interest.
Getting to Know Literacy Learners, P-3

4. Text should match the learner’s difficulty level
while still have varying text structures, types, and
genres. Selecting text is important to the literacy
environment because text must meet literacy goals and
objectives for the students. To ensure a level of
difficulty is appropriate for the learner has been met,
the Literacy Matrix can be utilized. The Literacy Matrix
tool contains a hard to easy gauge based on linguistic
and semiotic material (Laureate Education, n.d.b).
Selecting Texts

5. The Interactive Perspective lesson assists
students to be more strategic readers and writers.
This perspective demonstrates the students’
awareness about their thinking and their active
control of thinking by being more reflective and
self-regulated (Tompkins, 2010). The Interactive
Perspective promotes students’ independent use
of reading strategies and skills.
Literacy Lesson: Interactive Perspective

6. The Critical and Response Perspective
lesson enables the reader to be transformed
by the text to evoke an emotional or
personal response. Also in this lesson it
provides opportunities for students to
judge, evaluate, and think critically about
the text (Laureate Education, n.d.c).
Literacy Lesson: Critical and Response Perspectives

7. My colleagues’ feedback was the following: 1. I will be
incorporating more critical and response perspective in
my literacy instruction. 2. I will be adding more texts that
my students can relate to on an emotional level. 3. I would
like your support by proofreading my lesson plan when I
use the critical and response perspective. 4. Can I observe
you in the future during a critical and response
perspective lesson?
My students’ family feedback was the following: 1. I was
impressed to see the preparation that goes into literacy
instruction. 2. I will hold more discussions with my
daughter to discover her reading interest. 3. I will support
my child by taking her to our local library so my daughter
can select her favorite books. I will also support Ms.
Boddie by offering to volunteer to read to the class to
demonstrate the importance of literacy. 4. Can you
recommend books on the kindergarten level, that my
daughter can read during the summer?
Feedback from Colleagues and Family Members of Students

8. Laureate Education (Producer). (n.d.a). Getting to know your students [Video file]. Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu
Laureate Education (Producer). (n.d.b). Analyzing and selecting text [Video file]. Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu
Laureate Education (Producer). (n.d.c). Critical perspective [Video file]. Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu
Tompkins, G. E. (2010). Literacy for the 21st century: A balanced approach (5th ed.). Boston:
Allyn & Bacon.
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