Spring 2025      Volume 53, Number 2

A Practitioner’s Guide to the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan, and Implications for the Advanced, Accelerated, High Potential, and Gifted Literacy Learner, Part 2
By Laura Beltchenko

Document: Article  

Introductory Paragraph:  In the first part of this two-part series on the Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan (ICLP) (Illinois State Board of Education [ISBE], 2024; see Beltchenko, 2024), I placed a lens on the implications of the Illinois Public Act 103-0402 legislation, the framework of the ICLP; the three overarching goals; and the multiple pathways that include not only explicit and systematic instructional methods but also the constructivist and discovery models of approaching literacy instruction. Two additional elements of literacy development in the ICLP are practices of differentiation and the introduction of the “7 Components of Literacy” to Illinois educators (ISBE, 2024, p. 33). This second part of the series will go into greater depth regarding the alignment of practice with the Illinois ELA standards, as well as how the seven components can and should be differentiated for advanced literacy learners.

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.33600/IRCJ.53.2.2025.3

Page Numbers:   3-21