RTL: 4 Resources Model

Luke and Freebody (1999) - Four Resources Model
4 possible sets of reader practices:

1. Code breaker - outside text, suing strategies to get in
2. Text Participant - inside text
3. Text User - reading with a purpose - reads to understand, participate, and make use of text
4. Text Analyst - steps back to analyze through social critical literacy lens - what's author's motives for writing - how did they try to shape the reader?

Suggestions for practice - a sort of checklist for reading programs....

Does your program/course/classroom...

• provide readers with decoding skills?
• make readers strong in their self-perception as meaning-makers
• empower them to use a wide variety of texts in their daily lives
• enable them to analyze texts critically
• give them the reading practices needed to participate fully in society

Reading materials are authentic - written for a real-life purpose - not for the teaching of reading.

Literacy program aims to have reading as:

• social practice
• to build identities
  
• to build understanding of communities and cultures
• dynamic, purposeful, alive
• children feel valued