KAndersen
Dec 2, 05 - 11:48 PM |
Taking Stock: Concept of Literacy
1) Explain the Concept of Literacy
In my opinion, Literacy involves understanding and communicating with one’s environment. For example, to be literate means that one is able to take in information, understand it, adapt or add that information to previously learned information, perhaps add something to it, and then send out information either in response, in agreement or sharing that information with someone else.
Since information can be displayed in many different ways, we need to be literate in written and oral language, and be able to interpret alphabetical/character language, numerical language and other language formats, such as gestures.
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KAndersen
Dec 4th, 2005 - 12:43 PM |
Re: Taking Stock: Concept of Literacy
End of Course Reflection
My concept of literacy has not changed very much in the past 3 months, but my path to literacy has grown.
Everyone's path to becoming "literate" will be and is different, and as a teacher, I need to be supportive of my students and be a good role model, showing that literacy is beyond decoding (top down or bottom up).
Speed does not play a factor in literacy- fluency and the number of pages read are helpful indicators of effort and practice, but not accomplishment.
Instead of awarding students for the number of pages or books read, students on my "Amazing Readers" board will be the students that dedicate themselves to becoming engaged readers, those that try to explore new genres and books and those that willingly share their opinions and thoughts.
Literacy is a social- even if one is only communicating with themselves and a book. Books are opportunities for writers to share ideas with readers, so even though a books is an unanimate object, a reader is indeed communicating with the author, at least by long distance.
I have started to read "Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction" by Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown and Linda Kucan, and I am eager to see what they have to share about making words come alive.
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