The document discusses text literacy and its integration in the classroom. It defines text literacy as the ability to gather and communicate information using text. It notes advantages like availability, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility of text resources, but also limitations such as one-way presentation and memorization. The document then provides an example of integrating text resources in a 5th grade classroom phonics lesson on syllables, using books, videos and activities to help students identify the number of syllables in words. It also discusses decoding as interpreting words by translating sounds, and encoding as converting oral language into written symbols like spelling.