Literacy and Humanities

The New Mexico Statewide Literacy Framework (NMSLF) is intended to support districts, schools, and teachers as they implement a comprehensive literacy system from birth through high school that ensures all students are prepared for meaningful post-secondary opportunities, including further education, meaningful employment, and lifelong learning.

For more information on the NMSLF, please review the NMSLF Informational Brochure (PDF)

Disciplinary Literacy in New Mexico: A Guide for Secondary Educators is intended to provide secondary educators with strategies and resources to support the incorporation of daily reading and writing instruction in the core content areas — English language arts (ELA), math, history, and science. The strategies and resources provided are driven by the New Mexico definition of disciplinary literacy, which was crafted in a collaborative effort involving multiple secondary educators and literacy coaches. Additionally, the guide outlines how the three levels of literacy align with the Multi-Layered Systems of Support (MLSS) Layers of Instruction and provides a summary of discipline-specific literacy practices.

The 2020 New Mexico Dyslexia Handbook: A guide to teaching ALL students to read through structured literacy is a document that provides New Mexico educators with guidelines for academic instruction for students with characteristics of dyslexia. The dyslexia handbook will provide current scientific-based information concerning dyslexia, identification of characteristics of dyslexia, identification of the specific components for appropriate multi-sensory, systematic, explicit language-based reading programs, considerations for English learners, in addition to general education and special education accommodations and classroom strategies.