ABSTRACT
According to Bloome (2001), literacy is not an abstract and independent concept, but one that depends on the context for its meaning. How individuals, especially students, identify, use, and interpret reading and writing and how written texts are constructed depends on and differs across communities. Every personal encounter and situation entails a construction of a new style of communication. Thus, even though a community often creates the definition and patterns of literacy, it is significant to note that our understanding of literacy is a continuously evolving process that is often specific to a community. In this chapter, we want to accomplish two goals. The first is to help school counselors understand and have the language to describe how important literacy is to academic accomplishment. The second is to share a model, derived from interviews with school counselors, of how literacy skills can be developed through participation is a school counseling program.
