How can teachers incorporate diverse texts in their literacy instruction?

• Select books from diverse authors, genres, cultures, time periods, and themes.

• Only use texts from one specific culture

• Stick to one genre for all reading materials

• Avoid incorporating texts written by authors from different backgrounds

Why is promoting critical thinking skills important in teaching literacy through literature?

• Promoting critical thinking skills limits students' creativity and imagination.

• Promoting critical thinking skills is irrelevant to teaching literacy through literature.

• Promoting critical thinking skills enhances students' ability to analyze, evaluate, and interpret texts effectively.

• Promoting critical thinking skills hinders students' ability to comprehend texts.

Discuss the significance of reading comprehension strategies in literacy instruction.

• Reading comprehension strategies aid in understanding, analyzing, and interpreting texts effectively.

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  Reading comprehension strategies make texts more confusing for students

• Reading comprehension strategies are irrelevant in literacy instruction

• Reading comprehension strategies hinder students' ability to understand texts

Provide an example of how teachers can incorporate diverse texts in their lessons.

• Using only texts written by authors from the same background.

• Focusing solely on traditional Western literature

• Ignoring the importance of representation in literature

• Selecting literature from various cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives.

How can critical thinking skills be developed through analyzing literature?

• By only focusing on the author's intended message

• By encouraging readers to evaluate information, consider different perspectives, make connections between ideas, and draw conclusions based on evidence presented in the text.

• By avoiding reading literature altogether

• By memorizing plot points without critical analysis

What are the benefits of using literature as a tool for teaching literacy?

• Literature enhances various aspects of literacy such as reading comprehension, vocabulary, critical thinking, and cultural awareness.

• Literature is too complex for students to understand

• Literature has no impact on literacy skills

• Literature is outdated and irrelevant for teaching literacy

How can teachers create a supportive environment for students to engage with diverse texts?

• Discourage open discussions

• Avoid promoting empathy and understanding

• Assign only one type of literature to read

• Incorporate culturally relevant literature, facilitate open discussions, promote empathy and understanding, and encourage critical thinking.

This strategy is designed to differentiate instruction by providing students time and structure for thinking on a given topic, enabling them to formulate individual ideas and share these ideas with a peer.

• Think-Pair-Share

• Think-Pair-Share-Square

• Drama method

• Storytelling

It has been used to entertain as well as educate and has been passed down as a cultural tradition.

• Storytelling

• Drama method

• Think-Pair-Share

• Think-Pair-Square Share

It involve activating the memory by taking what is to be learned and creating meaningful visual, auditory, or kinesthetic images of the information.

• Image Analysis

• Storytelling

• Drama Method

• Think-Pair-Square-Share