The lessons of an English
language arts teacher that promote literacy are lessons for students in using writing as a tool for learning, lessons in learning to write to express narrative or argumentative thinking or to explore a question, lessons in expanding
and refining their thinking by revising their writing, lessons in learning to collaborate - to listen
and speak to one another in order to deepen
and broaden their individual thinking, lessons in learning how to question in increasingly deep
and complex ways, lessons in creating meaning as they
read,
and lessons in exploring multiple interpretations of what they
read.
By creating these environments, teachers enable students to achieve the vision of the Common Core English
language arts standards — that students will learn to
read carefully; think deeply, undaunted by
complex texts;
and use their minds to produce work of substance.