Our SD72 literacy framework outlines our district philosophy and provides an overview of district beliefs for creating a literacy-rich classroom that includes rigorous, joyful, culturally appropriate and responsive, and effective, evidence-based literacy instruction.

Exploring key components of English Language Arts at the grade levels from K-5. These include: Comprehend and Connect: reading, listening, viewing. Create and Communicate: writing, speaking, representing.

Adolescent Literacy involves social, intellectual, and political competencies needed for middle and secondary students to make sense of a multitude of message streams. Also called, “Disciplinary Literacy,” it involves navigating the particular ways to think, read, and write in each subject area.