Literacy

Literacy "Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship" Kofi Annan. Below are some resources to support you to explicitly teach literacy.

A great link: [|Readwritethink] Excellent grammar advice and ideas for teaching ESL students: [|English Blog]



Persuasive language:

Critical Literacy
//'Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. For the purposes of critical literacy, text is defined as a “vehicle through which individuals communicate with one another using the codes and conventions of society”. Accordingly, songs, novels, conversations, pictures, movies, etc. are all considered texts. The development of critical literacy skills enables people to interpret messages in the modern world through a critical lens and challenge the power relations within those messages. Teachers who facilitate the development of critical literacy encourage students to interrogate societal issues and institutions like family, poverty, education, equity, and equality in order to critique the structures that serve as norms as well as to demonstrate how these norms are not experienced by all members of society.'// Heather Coffey, (http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/44370)