Literacy Instruction

Literacy Instruction provides specific strategies to enable students to locate, comprehend, evaluate, and apply knowledge. Content related vocabulary instruction is part of literacy instruction.

What type of Literacy Instruction take place in the Lesson Plan?

• Reading comprehension
• Writing
• Information/media(help)
• Visual

Information Literacy

"Information Literacy is the ability to structure a search across a variety of sources and formats to locate the best information to meet a particular need." (Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning, American Library Association and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1998)

See How Model Activities Use this Best Instructional Practice

• "Primary Source Investigations" Model Activity (Workshop 2)
• "Zoom-In Inquiry" Model Activity (Workshop 4)
• "How Primary Sources Challenge Student Understanding" Model Activity (Workshop 5)

Information Literacy Publication

• Setting Library of Congress Research Goals

Reading Comprehension

"Reading Comprehension is the ability to understand text, including words, numbers, and images in print or digital form." (International Reading Association)

• "Primary Source Investigations" Model Activity (Workshop 2)
• "How Primary Sources Challenge Student Understanding" Model Activity (Workshop 5)
• Language Arts - Women's Writing
• Social Studies - Gettysburg Model Activity