ABSTRACT
While earlier chapters presented tactics and strategies which represent the day-to-day, ready-to-use pedagogical possibilities, these tactics and strategies are usually embedded within larger pedagogical arcs of language and literacy practices. These pedagogical arcs offer greater or lesser degrees of freedom for effective language and literacy education. The five pedagogical arcs in relation to markers of effective language and literacy instruction are scope and sequence, levels, craft, critical inquiry and place-based inquiry, and creativity and design. Each of these pedagogical arcs is described and then discussed in relation to markers for effective literacy practice. Drawing on Dewey and Herbart, consideration is also given as to how the iconic “lesson plan” has a history anchored in pedagogical practices with fewer degrees of freedom but could be broadened in scope to offer more scope within pedagogical practice.
