The document discusses different perspectives and approaches for literacy lessons. It addresses assessing literacy learners as emergent, beginning, or fluent readers. Teachers must observe, document, interpret, and evaluate students to determine their reading levels. When selecting texts, factors like readability, length, structure, and print size should be considered. Literature should be age-appropriate and cover relevant topics. Interactive literacy lessons involve discovery methods and activities like word walls and read-alouds. Critical perspectives encourage deeper thinking about texts by analyzing authors, pictures, and comparing multiple sources of information.