Literate Voices
When students find their voice, literacy follows.
Literate Voices brings literacy to life through personal narrative, visual storytelling, and authentic student publication. Students explore their identities, families, communities, and dreams, developing their voices as writers while creating stories worthy of being shared with the world.
What We Do
Personal Narrative
Students explore identity, family, community, friendship, heroes, and dreams through reading, discussion, and writing.
Literacy Through Storytelling
Students strengthen reading, writing, speaking, and listening as they develop, share, and revise their own stories.
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Visual Storytelling
Our newest graphic narrative model allows students to transform personal experiences into illustrated stories.
Authentic Publication
Students become published authors, creating professionally produced anthologies that celebrate their voices and experiences
When students recognize their own lives as worthy of literature, reading and writing become more meaningful. Personal narrative connects literacy to identity, culture, relationships, and lived experience.
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Literate Voices invites students to become the protagonists of their own stories, developing their voices as readers, writers, thinkers, and published authors.
Identity Drives Literacy
Our Six-Theme Literacy Journey
Unit 1:
Identity and Name
How do names and personal stories shape identity and voice?
Unit 2 :
Family
How does family shape identity, values, and the stories we tell about ourselves?
Unit 3:
Neighborhood/Place
How does the place where I live shape who I am and how I see the world?
From discovering who they are to imagining who they want to become, students explore six interconnected themes that give purpose to their reading, writing, and storytelling.
Unit 4:
Friendship
How do friendships shape who we are, our choices, and our stories?
Unit 5:
Heroes and Mentors
Who do we see as heroes, and how do they shape our identities, choices, and dreams?
Unit 6:
Dreams & Futures
How do my dreams connect to my community, and what actions can I take to make change possible?
From Personal Stories to Published Authors
Students don't just complete assignments. They create a book.
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At Literate Voices, students begin by exploring their identities, families, communities, friendships, heroes, and dreams. Through reading, conversation, writing, reflection, and revision, they develop personal narratives that give meaning and purpose to literacy.
Their stories become part of professionally published anthologies, giving students an authentic audience and a lasting record of their voices and experiences.
Our newest graphic narrative approach extends this tradition of student authorship. Students transform their writing into illustrated stories, seeing themselves as the protagonists of their own stories.
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Every student has a story worth telling. Every student deserves to be heard.