The definition of literacy is a diffficult one to answer. When the word literacy comes to mind I think of it first in basic terms of just being able to read, but I know it contains more elements of being just able to read. In my mind literacy as a whole defines the relationship that people have with literature.
Literacy as a whole means the relationship with different types of literture and how well people can comprehend them. There is the basic standard of literacy which would be reading. Then the next step would be how well the reader could comprehend what is being read.Understanding the words writen and know most of their meaning. After that it would be how well the reader could analyze the text. The next step from there would be if the writer could then analye the text well enough to point out anomilies, binaries,patterns, strands, and any repitition that the literature being read may have. After the interpataion of readint and understading the literature one should be able to write about it.
When writing on the literature the reader should be able to communicate clear deciseive thoughts about the text that isint already spelled out in the literature. With a sharp focused analytical claim. This shows that the reader understood the literature and is capable of translating it to others without retelling the literature that has already been read.
When I become a teacher I would like to help my students understand literacy by first expossing them to different literature. Then I would like to teach them how to write different types of literature as well. In my senior year I had a teacher who took us outside and made us describe the clouds. This had an impact on my life as a student because it was unexpected, and then it was special because it tought me how to describe a physical object in text formation. After this experience I was deeply impressed wih my teacher and knew that I wanted to give my students positive learning experiences. It didn’t cost her any money we didn’t have to leave the campus and we got out of the classroom away from the desk the chalkboards and set my mind free to look at the clouds and really describe them the way I needed to.
In my own classroom I would like to take away some of the standard student teacher relationship. I always wonderd how the teachers got addressed as mr or ms so and so but the students always are called by first names. I know it has something to do with respect but I think that in a student eacher relationship it should go both ways. I see myself havin a very positve relationship with a majority of my students where they want to learn from me as well as having to.
I like how you broke down the steps of literacy and how we use it in our day to day lives. By showing the steps of how we use literacy and are literate, it shows the importance of how it's more than just reading . It is also comprehension and writing. I also like how you determined how you will use literacy in your classrooms when you become a teacher. This shows how passionate you are about teaching and making sure students understand it's true meaning.
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