NPS Literacy

Strategic.

• Promote an equitable, balanced, and systematic literacy framework as the foundation of a successful reading and writing program. 
• Foster a rigorous curriculum that ensures every student experiences high quality literacy instruction.
• Deliver explicit, data-driven, differentiated reading and writing instruction that is rooted in scientific research.

Authentic.

• Motivate students by building relationships and making reading and writing personally meaningful.
• Facilitate  learning experiences that honor diversity and reflect culturally relevant instruction through reading, writing, and research.
• Challenge students with complex, diverse texts that engage minds, capture attention, and evoke emotions.  

Engaged.

• Cultivate classrooms where students are actively engaged in reading and writing.
• Utilize authentic tasks, student choice, and collaboration as keys to active engagement.
• Provide learning experiences where students read, write, communicate, and think critically in every classroom, in every school, everyday - no exceptions.