Integrated Literacy

Once defined simply as “reading and writing,” emerging research, combined with both theory and “on-the-ground” practice, is enriching and expanding our understanding of Literacy as a complex, multifaceted skill. 

In addition to the foundational skills of phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency, literacy also requires vocabulary and comprehension. Learners must be able to decode, contextualize, and make meaning from information and communicate that knowledge effectively to others.

Learning in general, and literacy, in particular, are in a symbiotic relationship with lived experience. Interest, background knowledge, cultural relevance, multi-modal experiences, and reflection all serve to acquire and retain information, which in turn provides greater access to new information and more opportunities for the learner!

Visit the II Professional Learning Page to see all 

upcoming literacy workshop opportunities.

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“...literacy education not only unlocks opportunity for learning across disciplines but it is enhanced when well-integrated within disciplines. Inter-disciplinary literacy instruction enables the application of literate abilities for purposeful and richer learning, often motivating learners through engagement in disciplines and topics of interest.”