The document outlines the International Reading Association's competencies for literacy professionals. It includes six main competency areas: Literate Environment, Foundational Knowledge, Diversity, Assessment and Evaluation, Curriculum and Instruction, and Professional Learning and Leadership. Each competency area contains several sub-competencies that literacy professionals should master, such as designing physical and social environments, understanding assessments, developing instructional practices, and participating in professional development.

1. International Reading
Association (IRA)
Competencies

2. Foundational
Knowledge Diversity
Literate
Environment
Assessment &
Evaluation
Curriculum
&
Instruction
Professional Learning & Leadership

3. Literate
Environment
-Design Physical
Environments
-Design Social
Environments
-Differentiate
Foundational
Knowledge
-Developmental and
Historical Theories of
Reading and Writing
-Responsive Teaching
Diversity
-Recognize and
Understand Student
Diversity
-Use Knowledge of
Student Diversity to
Form Instruction
Assessment &
Evaluation
-Understand
Assessments
-Choose and Develop
Assessments
-Interpret Assessments
-Use Interpretation of
Assessments to Form
Instruction
Curriculum &
Instruction
-Design & Carry Out a
Standards-Based
Curriculum
-Develop Instructional
Practices That Allow for
Differentiation
-Implement Practices
That Support Use of
Varied Text
Professional Learning & Leadership

4. Literate Environment
• Design Physical Environments
• Design Social Environments
• Differentiate

5. Foundational Knowledge
• Developmental and Historical Theories of
Reading and Writing
• Responsive Teaching

6. Diversity
• Recognize and Understand Student Diversity
• Use Knowledge of Student Diversity to Form
Instruction

7. Curriculum & Instruction
• Design & Carry Out a Standards-Based
Curriculum
• Develop Instructional Practices That Allow for
Differentiation
• Implement Practices That Support Use of
Varied Text

8. Assessment & Evaluation
• Understand Assessments
• Choose and Develop Assessments
• Interpret Assessments
• Use Interpretation of Assessments to Form
Instruction

9. Professional Learning & Leadership
• Understand Adult Learning Theories and Systems
for Change
• Display Positive Dispositions Related to Ourselves
as Readers and Writers and to the Teaching of
Readers and Writers
• Participate In, Design, Facilitate, Lead, and
Evaluate Effective and Differentiated PD
• Be a Knowledgeable Political Advocate on the
Local, State, and National Level

10. Literate
Environment
-Design Physical
Environments
-Design Social
Environments
-Differentiate
Foundational
Knowledge
-Developmental and
Historical Theories of
Reading and Writing
-Responsive Teaching
Diversity
-Recognize and
Understand Student
Diversity
-Use Knowledge of
Student Diversity to
Form Instruction
Assessment &
Evaluation
-Understand
Assessments
-Choose and Develop
Assessments
-Interpret Assessments
-Use Interpretation of
Assessments to Form
Instruction
Curriculum &
Instruction
-Design & Carry Out a
Standards-Based
Curriculum
-Develop Instructional
Practices That Allow for
Differentiation
-Implement Practices
That Support Use of
Varied Text
Professional Learning & Leadership

11. LE: Reading
Engagement
-Design Physical
Environments
-Design Social
Environments
-Differentiate
Foundational
Knowledge
-Whatever We Read
or Theorists' Names
Diversity
-Choice
-Awareness of
Interests
-Awareness of
Abilities
Assessment &
Evaluation
- Observation Tool:
Environment
-Classroom Library
Inventories
-Reading
Engagement Data
Curriculum &
Instruction
-Refining our
definitions
Understanding
authentic
engagement vs.
compliance

12. “The best way to strengthen children’s learning
is to let children live like richly literate people the
world over.”
Lucy Calkins