Eight Principles of Literacy Instruction

Review the eight principles of literacy instruction and analyze the lesson plan you created for the activity presentation. Which principles apply to your lesson? Explicate your rationale by illustrating the principles that relate to key aspect(s) of your lesson.

1. Focus on complex, meaningful questions and problems so that students' reading and writing can be in service of genuine inquiry.
2. Embed basic skills instruction in the context of more global tasks, such as reading comprehension and composing skills in introductory reading and writing activities or instruction.
4. Model powerful thinking strategies for students .
5. Encourage students to use multiple approaches to academic tasks and have students describe their answers aloud to the class so that all students hear different ways to solve the same problem.
7. Make dialogue with students the central medium for teaching and learning.

I feel these principals apply to my lesson because these principals require students to analyze and describe the music they are listening to. Even thought they are listening to music actively they still have to think critically. That will help students come up with ideas about what the music means.