The Good of Balance Literacy

I think even from the first year of school there should be opportunities for students to hear and to enjoy rich literature. The emphasis doesn't have to be on students independently reading those books because they're probably to get rich literature at their decodable level is going to be very tricky but that's where the importance of read alouds and acting out stories is really valuable. So teachers reading texts to them whether they're nursery rhymes or fairy tales or folk tales or picture books of various kinds it should be a part of every single day.