Literacy is a big part of teaching. You need to be able to read and write to understand every other content area. It needs to be very focused and the kids need to be able to read books about what they are interested in. Literacy instruction and all instruction in general should follow the 8 pillars and incorporate constrained and unconstrained. Granted I know that not every single one of my literacy lessons are going to have those, but I will certainly try my best. I want to make kids want to read and I think the best way to do that is to make it fun and give them choices. Sometimes I will need to pick the book but 95% of the time I want the kids to read what they want. In the future I want a huge classroom library that has books for everyone on all levels.