I would want to present a variety of genres to my class, including poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction. I would try to encourage an open classroom environment that promotes free expression and mutual respect. Therefore, reading, writing, listening, and analyzing would all be important skills that I would reinforce in my classroom. To me, literacy is much more than simply the ability to read and write. While both reading and writing are vital to the meaning of this word, they are simply the basis of the definition.
Literacy is the ability to interpret, analyze, summarize, relate, and combine ideas.
On can express literacy by reading, writing, speaking, drawing, etc.