Critical Consciousness – Spirit of Paulo Friere

Holdaway’s Theory of Literacy development focuses on the way a child begins their initial reading journey: at home with story telling events that include observation, collaboration, practice and performance. Incorporating various resources to create engagement, creativity and motivation: the use of big books and shared reading strategies, real life objects and verbal connections, reinforcement through visual labels and recognition and the exchange of meaning language situations which create meaningful learning and natural development of the oral language skills.

Luke & Freebodys four Resource Model The Four Resource Model (Freedom and Luke, 1990; DET, 2017) can be incorporated into a reading and writing content lesson and activity. The learners will acquire the necessary roles; code breaker, text participant, text user and text analyst to comprehend a text. The Four Resource Model can be incorporated into a range of reading and writing activities which focus on text deconstruction processors, strategies and understanding…