What is a Literacy Strategy (Literacy)?

• A. An approach selected deliberately by a reader or writer to comprehend or compose text.
• B. A list of spelling errors.
• C. A type of grade-level benchmark.
• D. A form of formal assessment.

Answer: (A)

Literacy strategies are deliberate approaches a reader uses to understand text or a writer uses to create text. This is exactly what the option describes: an approach selected deliberately by a reader or writer to comprehend or compose text. In practice, students might use strategies like predicting what will happen next, asking questions while reading, visualizing scenes, or using summarization to keep the main ideas in mind. These strategies are about how a person engages with text, not about measuring or listing errors or standards. The other choices point to things like spelling error lists, grade benchmarks, or formal assessments—tools that describe performance or standards rather than the active methods a reader or writer uses to interact with text.