1. Literate Environment
Analysis
by Kelly Lucier

2. Getting to Know Literacy
Learners
• Noncognitive Assessment: Primary Grades Reading
Survey from Effective Teaching Solutions
• I gained insight into how each student felt about reading.
• I gained insight into how each student perceived their
ability in reading.
• Cognitive Assessment: BRI (Basic Reading Inventory)
• I gained information about each student’s accuracy at
grade level.
• I gained information about each student’s on grade level
fluency.
• I gained information about each student’s
comprehension.

3. Selecting Texts
• Dimensions for selecting appropriate texts:
• from narrative to informational
• from linguistic to semiotic
• for readability from easy to difficult
• Students should be exposed to a variety of
text structures and features to help broaden
horizons.
• A strong text will lend itself to writing.

4. Literacy Lesson:
Interactive Perspective
Key Ideas
• Students need practice putting strategy into
practice.
• Students can be taught to be
metacognitive.
• Differentiation is key due to amount of
support different learners need.
• Includes both word recognition and
comprehension of text.

5. Literacy Lesson: Critical
and Response
Perspective
Key Ideas
Critical Perspective:
• Holds students accountable for looking at
text from multiple perspectives.
• Text is read with a specific purpose.
Response Perspective:
• Holds students accountable for thinking
about a text and hopefully being
transformed by it in some way.