Description

Nelson Literacy is built on a comprehensive framework that provides multiple opportunities for explicit teaching and practice of the literacy strategies students need to be successful.

Oral Communication

• Foundation for literacy learning
• Students need numerous opportunities to talk about learning
• Students need opportunities to develop skills and strategies that effective speakers and listeners use to interact with others

Reading

• Complex process that involves applications of strategies before, during, and after reading
• Students need to learn and apply a repertoire of reading strategies

Writing

• To be able to communicate ideas with ease and clarity, students need opportunities to write for various purposes and audiences
• Understand elements of effective writing and writing process

Media Literacy

• Students need skills to critically interpret messages from various media
• Use media to communicate their own ideas effectively
• Develop critical thinking skills