Literacy skills are a crucial part of any students' education and determine success in various core subject areas. The goal is for students to be fully literate, and to do this, they must have the ability to communicate and acquire new knowledge. Teachers often fail to use the knowledge and interests that students bring with them to the classroom. After their primary years, students often struggle with motivation in the area of literacy. This chapter explores the merging of academic language and literacy with social and environmental language and digital resources. The ability to motivate students and address the current disconnect of developing and enhancing basic literacy skills are cleverly shared through the acronym "LOVE" (Learning, Opportunity, Value, Enhancement), based on the Teaching Students to L.O.V.E. Literacy presentation and book, 29 Days to L.O.V.E. Literacy (2016).