Literacy begins with reading and writing and connects with the learning happening in every classroom. As defined by the provincial curriculum, literacy also describes critical thinking skills, including analysis, synthesis, and communication and creation for a variety of purposes and audiences. As educated citizens, students demonstrate their literacy by using learning area specific competencies and reading and writing skills to support critical thinking and communication. Literacy competencies might be used to make meaning through finding the significance in a story told by a family member, or to develop ideas, such as when brainstorming and discussing with peers a list of strategies and justifying the best choice. Many teachers find that students are already developing, practicing, and demonstrating aspects of literacy implicitly in their learning opportunities. Teachers can further integrate literacy into learning opportunities by making these embedded aspects of literacy explicit in lesson planning, teaching, and classroom assessment.
Recommended Literacy Resources - available in the DRC
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