Literacy+Learners

= **Literacy Learners and Learning** =

Diverse Literacy Learners
One of the goals of this program is to: Develop deeper understandings of diverse literacy learners and what it means for them to become powerfully literate The following readings are provided to help you delve deeper into this focus. You might like to use extracts in your Learning Circle or with a team of colleagues. You might start by finding out what the group's current understandings are in relation to this focus. It has two parts: Who are our diverse literacy learners? What does it mean for them to be powerfully literate? To find out initial understandings you could construct a concept map individually or together. After you have worked with some of the following readings, looked at student work and test data, observed students at work and engaged in discussions with them about their literacy practices you will be in a very strong position to respond to the above focus:



Adolescent Literacy Learners
Adolescent literacy learners are also diverse - we have listed readings particular to the middle years and secondary students as adolescent literacy is developing a strong research base in recent years: